An artist’s impression of Balaenognathus maeuseri. Credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth Paleontologists from England, Germany, and Mexico have uncovered an extraordinary new speciesA species…
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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…
This Lythronax lived in North America in the late Cretaceous period. These tyrannosaurids are estimated to have weighed up to 2.5 tons. Credit: 2022 D.E.…
Adult and young of the ichthyosaur species Shonisaurus popularis chase ammonoid prey 230 million years ago, in what is now Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada, U.S.A.…
Artist’s reconstruction of the last known toothed bird, Janavis finalidens, in its original environment surrounded by the co-occurring ‘wonderchicken’, Asteriornis. 66.7 million years ago parts…
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…
An illustrated reconstruction of Leviathanochelys aenigmatica. Credit: ICRA_Arts. According to a new paper published in Scientific ReportsEstablished in 2011, <em>Scientific Report</em>s is a peer-reviewed open-access…
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…
Neanderthals were a species of human that lived in Europe and Asia between about 200,000 and 30,000 years ago. They are known for their distinctive…
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…
Inhabitants of the “Island of the Dwarf Dinosaurs” in present-day Transylvania in the Cretaceous: Transylvanosaurus (front right), as well as turtles, crocodiles, giant pterosaurs, and…
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…
New research indicates that a mass extinction occurred 550 million years ago, during the Ediacaran period. 550-million-year-old creatures’ message to the present. Earth is currently…