PALEONTOLOGY

Oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur discovered in Morocco

A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and Sidi Mohamed Ben...

Discovery of a new species of fossil tree helps paint picture of ancient African forest

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other collaborating institutions have identified ancient fossils...

A 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish with preserved stomach contents is a newly discovered species

In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, Ferruaspis brocksi, that shows preserved stomach contents as well...

The first fossil thrips in Africa: this tiny insect pest met its end in a volcanic lake 90 million years ago

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they cause to...

Western Europe’s oldest human face discovered in Spain

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the...

Melanosome patterns in Mesozoic mammals suggest they had dark, uniformly dull fur coloring

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in fossilized Mesozoic mammals, that they most likely had...

Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa’s Western Cape

Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by geologist and paleontologist Gideon Mantell in...

Rare aardvark trace fossils discovered in South Africa

A recent study published in Quaternary Research describes the discovery and identification of possible aardvark tracks and burrow sites in Pleistocene aeolianites on the...

‘Old stump’ spotted by deer hunter is actually a mammoth tusk, Texas researchers say

Will Juett had doubts when a hunter told him they'd found something on the 02 Ranch even more rare than a trophy buck. An...

Unnoticed for decades, dinosaur footprints at Australian school reveal ancient secrets

A trove of fossilized dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school, scientists said on Wednesday. The...

Misha the elephant lived in zoos, but her tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations

Teeth recovered from a beloved zoo elephant that died in 2008 are helping University of Utah geologists develop a method for tracking the movements...

Explorers discover wreckage of cargo ship that sank in Lake Superior storm more than 130 years ago

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western...

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