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…
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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…
A new study provides the strongest evidence yet that the dinosaurs were struck down in their prime and were not in decline, at the time…
This fossil leaf from Wyoming’s Hanna Basin, about 54 million years old, shows damage by insects. Credit: Lauren Azevedo-Schmidt Insects today are causing unprecedented levels…
Scallop Pleuronectites from the Triassic period with fluorescent color pattern, under UV light. Credit: Klaus Wolkenstein A geobiologist from Göttingen University has found a diversity…
Whatcheeria was a prehistoric superpredator. It was a six-foot-long lake-dwelling creature with a salamander-like body and a long, narrow head. Credit: Adrienne Stroup, Field Museum…
Artist’s impression of an individual 525-million-year-old Cardiodictyon catenulum on the shallow coastal sea floor, emerging from the shelter of a small stromatolite built by photosynthetic…