Tag: paleontology

Amphibian fossils, particularly those capturing larval stages, are exceptionally rare due to tadpoles’ soft, delicate bodies, which are highly prone ...

The Balkans and Anatolia once formed a single landmass separated from the rest of Europe, and may have been a ...

Not the first place you'd expect to find a whale, isn't it?

The Royal Mint is honoring her work in the field of paleontology.

The 20,000-year-old remains of a mammoth bear signs of human hunting and butchery.

The 'well-dressed' dinosaur may offer hints about how birds such as peacocks evolved to show off.

Small, dinosaur-like animals may have been the ancestors of the first flying vertebrates.

Sometimes, it's best to admit that we simply don't know the right answer (yet).

These flying reptiles dominated the skies until they were wiped out by a killer asteroid.

Although they had fur and whiskers, the earliest mammals had long lifespans like reptiles.

This pristinely preserved scene in fossilized amber is an extremely rare example of ancient predation in action.

It's amazing what you can do with one fossil.

The perfect Valentine's dinosaur -- a massive Titanosaur!

To the untrained eye, they look just like plants, static and seemingly inactive. But things are not always as they ...

This isn't the last piece of the puzzle -- in fact, it's the very first.

We don't even know if they were plants or animals.

The 245-million-year-old fossils overturns the established view that early dino relatives were the size of a chicken and feeble.

Geoscientists working in South America have uncovered an ancient berry.

Bones to stones.

Paleontologists have identified an ancient hyena-like canine that occupied eastern North America approximately 12 million years ago. The coyote-sized dog ...

Sauropods, or some titanosaurs at least, were not the best parents. A recent analysis of juvenile fossils belonging to a ...

It was a finding that sent ripples throughout the entire paleontology community. Met with heavy criticism, the authors are now ...

Researchers have found new fauna in northern Brazil, in what used to be the continent of Gondwana.

Tyrannosaurus was one of the fiercest land predators ever, despite claims that the dinosaur was mostly a scavenger. While this ...

This bizarre creature looks like a cross between a scorpion and a boat, which is pretty accurate considering it was ...

A novel analysis reveals T-rex and other theropods - the top land predators that dominated the planet for no less than ...

Traces of soft tissue and red blood cells were discovered by accident by a team of paleontologists and biologists while ...

Each year, hundreds of millions people fly by plane to meet family, do business or travel for leisure. Quite a ...

Just like Pluto, the iconic dinosaur genus was demoted decades ago and classified under another sauropod genus. But a more ...

Long before T-rex claimed the top dog spot among terrestrial predators, a vicious crocodile ancestor that walked on its hind ...

Paleontologists diving beneath the surface of a water-filled cave in Madagascar made a monumental find: a graveyard filled with the ...

Based on fossil evidence and genome analysis, scientists know that the two groups diverged from a common ancestor around 420 ...

It's very small and incredibly old - scientists have found the egg of a 240 million year old parasite - ...

Dr Nick Longrich from Bath University was studying bones from two horned dinosaurs from the ceratopsian family (related to Triceratops), when ...

It was about as big as T-Rex, but not quite as fit - new fossils have revealed that Deinocheirus mirificus had quite a ...

Paleontologists have identified the first known animals that used internal fertilization instead of spawning - armor-coated swimmers, called antiarchs, which lived ...

Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur that possibly had the largest nose in prehistory. Ironically, it didn't have a keen ...

Artist’s impression of living Protulophila polyps in a worm tube. Dennis Gordon and Erika MacKay .Talk about a comeback! An ...

These reefs were built by Cloudina ~548 million years ago, from the Nama Group, Namibia. Credit: Fred Bowyer Corals have ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest evidence of a bird pollinator visiting flowers, presumably to feed on the nectar - if ...

Photo: Julius Csotonyi Some 65 million years ago an asteroid impact caused countless species of land, marine and plant life ...

(c) PLOS ONE Fossils that capture a kinetic moment are truly fascinating because they surprise a scene or picture from ...

Crossing  the riverbed of Carrizo Creek in Oklahoma, a series of tracks made by a two-legged dinosaur have been preserved ...

A giant platypus fossil, measuring more than 1m long (3ft) was discovered in Queensland, Australia. The animal lived 5-15 million ...

Illustration of a cougar-like nimravid. (c) thorthebarbarian.com Looking close at suspicious marks and cuts present in the skulls of saber-tooth ...

This primitive fish might be the first animal with a face. (c) Nature A lot of complex organisms, be them ...

Paleontologists have scratched the surface of what appears to be a very promising dinosaur site near the Arctic circle, in ...

Instead of digging through layers of rocks, a few paleontologists focused their efforts on 'digging' through museum collection instead - ...

When the Sahara comes to mind, lush greenery and gorgeous, fast flowing waters might be the last scenery that crosses ...

Though built in 1933, the Fossil Cabin near the dinosaur graveyard at Como Bluff is, in a way, the oldest ...