Tag: paleontology

Land clearing and human habitation put significant pressure on local species - combine this with globalization and a general recklessness ...

A fossil of a small, forest-floor-dwelling animal called Megaconus puts a big question mark on the evolution of mammals - ...

A new, unusual species of dinosaur has been discovered in the deserts of Utah. Artistic representation of Nasuceratops. Credit: Raul ...

Despite the fact that triceratops are some of the most well known dinosaurs, finding a complete skeletons is an extremely ...

The fossil, which still retains impressions of feathers, is 160 million years old, predating the oldest Archaeopterix fossil found by ...

(c) Semyon Grigoriev In nothing short of an astonishing find, Russian scientists have discovered a wonderfully preserved female mammoth carcass ...

Bones from Lufengosaurus embryos (like this femur shown in cross-section) have yielded new information about dinosaur development. Paleontologists have discovered ...

A University of Alberta researcher has identified some of the strongest evidence ever found that dinosaurs could paddle long distances. ...

(c) Miquel Crusafont Catalan Palaeontology Institute Paleontologists were stoked by the discovery of hundreds of fossilized dinosaur eggs, belonging to ...

Paleontologists from the University of Florida have unearthed remarkably well-preserved fossils of two crocodilians and a mammal previously unknown to ...

Illustration of the High Arctic camel on Ellesmere Island during the Pliocene warm period, about three and a half million ...

Just one of the many reasons why I love geology - paleontologists have unearthed extraordinarily preserved fossils of a 520-million-year-old ...

(c) RAY TROLL 2013. (Photo : Flickr/Ryan Somma) In 1899 the famous Russian paleontologist Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky published a paper in which ...

For the past twenty years there's been a debate whether the mammal explosion that eventually made the class of animals ...

If you think intestinal parasites are a recent problem, you'd better think again. Ancient tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old shark ...

Reconstruction of Canis dirus (dire wolf) with two possible aspects according to its probable geographic origin: South-American or North American. ...

Professor Gregory Retallack of  University of Oregon has launched a highly controversial claim that stirred the scientific community recently, implying that ...

Artist impression of Archaeopteryx lithographica by Carl Buell Today's birds' ancestors descended from non-avian dinosaurs according to a recent paper ...

Paleontologists have come across the oldest fossils identified as a relative of the giant panda in Spain, dated from 12 ...

Named after the almost all-powerful dark spirit from the Lord of The Rings, the Sauron dinosaurs roamed Africa some 95 ...

Well it may be a bit of overreaction, but with the Halloween and all, you just have to call it: ...

Between 247 to 252 million years ago, Earth life was going through quite possibly its most dire time. During this ...

Captioned is a nearly intact fossil of Fuxianhuia protensa. The inset shows the fossilized brain in the head of another ...

No, this is not the prologue for a Steven Spielberg movie. Yevgeny Salinde, a 11 year old boy, found what's ...

A weird looking dinosaur called Pegomastax sports long, sharp vampire-like fangs despite being a plant-eater. Here, skin, scales and quills ...

Workers explore South Africa's Border Cave. A study shows modern culture may have emerged in the area much earlier than ...

Researchers have discovered what they believe to be a grandfather of snakes, which descended from terrestrial rather than marine ancestors. ...

A team of international scientists from Britain and the United States have devised a new mathematical formula, considered more accurate than previous methods, ...

During the tumultuous  Cretaceous and Jurassic periods if you could only choose one word to describe the world, it would've certainly be ...

A remarkable paleontological discovery surfaced from China recently, after scientists reported they've found fossils belonging to the Yutyrannus huali,a very close ...

Africa proves yet again that it's the cradle of the hominid family, and in consequence the human species. Scientists have ...

The Cambrian era marked a profound change on life on Earth, sparking the rapid development of complex organisms and a ...

Paleontologists have recently named two new horned dinosaur species, closely related to the famous Triceratops, which were dug up from a ...

Velociraptors have been repeatedly described by paleonthologists as voracious predators, however a recent study of a 75 million year old ...

Last week we reported about a 300 million year old fossilized forest which was discovered underneath a coal mine in ...

Although the T. rex isn't the largest carnivorous dinosaur to have roamed Earth, a new study that used computer models ...

Bergmann’s rule states that mammals of a given genus or species are smaller in hotter climates, and bigger in colder climates. ...

Scientists at  Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have set on a path that promises to revolutionize the way paleontology is studied, and ...

Casey Holliday, a University of Missouri researcher, was looking through some of the hundreds of unlabeled items kept in a ...

The bond between man and dog has always been extremely evident, an unconditioned friendship, at least from the dog's part, which has ...

Paleontologists have been familiar with the Alamosaurus for decades since the first fossil sample was discovered in 1922, however previous ...

New Jersey will soon be home to the closest thing to Jurassic Park so far, after yesterday the only press ...

Paleontologists have found a link between cataclysmic volcanic eruptions around 252 million years and greatest mass extinction the Earth has ...

Fossilized moth wings, that are blue after death were yellow-green during lifetime, suggesting a colorful and creative method of camouflage. ...

Paleontologists have unearthed the remains of numerous whale fossils, dating back from seven million years ago,  in Northern Chile. On ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago the Earth surface and oceans were inhabited by fierce predators of huge proportions by ...

In a paper published in the journal Nature, Chinese paleontologists have detailed their impressions on the finding of a chicken-sized ...

Using a new X-raying technique and device, based on synchrotron radiation, scientists have been able to  map the pigmentation of ...

Svante Paabo, the researcher whose work provided the basis for the Jurassic Park movies seems to have struck gold once ...

Amber is not very common, but you can't say it's really uncommon either. Bugs in amber - that's rare, but ...