Photograph of the whole specimen of Petrodacyle. Credit: René Lauer The animal had a 2-meter wingspan and a large bony crest on its head. A…
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Researchers used Bayesian analysis to study the brachiopods’ decline and bivalves’ rise post-end-Permian extinction, finding bivalves better adapted to changing conditions. Left, Devonian brachiopod fossils…
265 million years ago, Pampaphoneus biccai was South America’s apex predator. A well-preserved fossil found in Brazil offers new insights into this prehistoric giant. Artistic…
Pictured is a rock slab with the earliest evidence for deep-sea vertebrates. The fossil evidence consists of pits and trails produced by feeding fishes during…
Image of fruit belonging to Palaeophytocrene chicoensis. The Sierra College Museum of Natural History is the permanent repository for this fossil. Credit: Brian Atkinson An…
Reconstruction of the earliest ichthyosaur and the 250-million-year-old ecosystem found on Spitsbergen. Credit: Illustration by Esther van Hulsen For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched…
Mineralized fossils of Protomelission gatehousei from Wirrealpa, Australia. Credit: Reproduced from Zhang et al. (Nature, 2021) A recent study has revealed that the origins of…
The fossil extinct giant ant Titanomyrma from Wyoming that was discovered over a decade ago by SFU paleontologist Bruce Archibald and collaborators at the Denver…
Fossil flower of Symplocos kowalewskii. Credit: Carola Radke, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin New images of the largest fossilized flower to be discovered in amber have…
Artist’s reconstruction of Ignacius dawsonae surviving six months of winter darkness in the extinct warm temperate ecosystem of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Credit: Kristen Miller,…
(A) Completely unhatched egg from the clutch P43. (B) Almost fully intact circular outline of the egg possibly indicating it to be unhatched and no…
Fossil STM 15-36, photographed by Xuwei Yin at the Shangdong Tianyu Museum of Natural History. Credit: Xuwei Yin, Shangdong Tianyu Museum of Natural History The…
A rendering of Microraptor zhaoianus. Credit: Ralph Attanasia III New research on the preserved gut contents of Microraptor reveals a more varied diet than previously…
3D model of Barbourofelis fricki. Credit: Narimane Chatar Research conducted by the University of Liège sheds new light on the mechanisms behind the bites of…
The Kimberella fossil. Credit: Dr Ilya Bobrovskiy/GFZ-Potsdam Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have uncovered new insights into the physiology of our earliest animal…
A photograph of the Jarrow amphibian Keraterpeton galvani. Credit: Dr. Aodhan O’Gogain, Trinity College Dublin A mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades has been…
Alisporites tenuicorpus the pollen grain used in this work. Note a human hair is approximately 70µm so the samples analyzed are about half the width…
Impressions of the Ediacaran fossils Dickinsonia (at center) with the smaller anchor-shaped Parvancorina (left) in sandstone of the Ediacara Member from the Nilpena Ediacara National…
The type specimen that George Willett used to originally describe the species. Credit: Valentich-Scott et al. A tiny clam, previously only known from fossil records,…
Artistic reconstruction of the fossil squamate, Bellairsia gracilis, basking on a dinosaur footprint. Credit: Artwork by Dr. Elsa Panciroli A fossil discovery from Scotland has…