Illustration of an allosaurus. Credit: Óscar Sanisidro © Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont Dinosaur footprints found in several European countries, very similar to others…
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A Northwestern University researcher stands on the Lopez de Bertodano Formation, a well-preserved, fossil-rich area on the west side of Seymour Island in Antarctica. Credit:…
New fossils of an ancient legged snake, called Najash, shed light on the origin of the slithering reptiles. Credit: Raúl Gómez New fossils of an…
These are computer models based on X-ray tomographic microscopy of the fossils, showing the successive stages of development. Credit: Philip Donoghue and Zongjun Yin Animal…
A life-like structure created in the lab by chemical gardening. Credit: Sean McMahon The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by…
Hannah’s skull. Credit: Scott Persons. University of Alberta paleontologists uncover spiky skull—and overturn long-standing assumptions in identifying horned dinosaurs. A team of researchers at the…
Artistic reconstruction of Stephanorhinus in its natural environment. Credit: Mauricio Anton New research on ancient rhino tooth could unlock evolution mysteries. Scientists from the University…
This is an artist’s rendering of A. burmitina feeding on eudicot flowers. Credit: Illustration by Ding-hau Yang A new study co-led by researchers in the…
New Zealand is a key area for understanding the diversity of the extinct penguins and has even revealed the existence of ‘giant’ penguin species (larger…
Artist’s reconstruction of two rauisuchians fighting over a desiccated corpse of a mammal-relative in the Triassic of southern Africa. In the background, dinosaurs and mammal-like…
This is an illustration of the giant asteroid collision in outer space that produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth. Credit:…
Life reconstruction of Mystriosaurus. Credit: Julia Beier A prehistoric crocodile that lived around 180 million years ago has been identified — almost 250 years after…
Stephanorhinus skull from Dmanisi. Credit: Mirian Kiladze, Georgian National Museum By looking into fossil teeth from almost 2 million years old rhinos, researchers from the…
An illustration: Aquilarhinus palimentus. ICRA Art The most complete skull of a duck-billed dinosaur from Big Bend National Park, Texas, is revealed in the Journal…
An artist’s rendering of how Suskityrannus hazelae may have looked. Artwork by Andrey Atuchin. A new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex – much smaller than…
Professor Philip Piper from the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology inspects the cast of a hominin third metatarsal discovered in 2007. The bone is…
Artist’s reconstruction of Chicxulub crater soon after impact, 66 million years ago. DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE A study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of…
This is a Gobiraptor reconstruction. Do Yoon Kim (2019) A new oviraptorosaur species from the Late Cretaceous was discovered in Mongolia, according to a study…