An artist reconstruction of Ailurarctos from Shuitangba. The grasping function of its false thumb (shown in the right individual) has reached to the level of…
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University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher with a mounted skeleton of the Buesching mastodon, based on casts of individual bones produced in fiberglass, on public…
Illustration of White Rock spinosaurid by Anthony Hutchings. Credit: UoS/A Hutchings Despite a land area of just 148 square miles (384 km2), the Isle of…
Illustration of White Rock spinosaurid by Anthony Hutchings. Credit: UoS/A Hutchings Paleontologists have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land hunters. Spinosaurids,…
Researchers analyzed zinc isotopes in teeth and discovered that great white sharks make have contributed to the extinction of megalodon. Scientists investigated the diet of…
Schematic drawing of a subset of the animals that were investigated as part of the research. Metabolic rates and resulting thermophysiological strategies are color-coded, orange…
Palaeospondylus as reconstructed by synchrotron radiation x-ray computed tomography. Credit: RIKEN Evidence that the mysterious ancient fish-like vertebrate Palaeospondylus was likely one of the earliest…
Research sheds light on the flight of magnificent ancient creatures. Credit: Chihiro Kinoshita What the new JurassicThe Jurassic (from the Jura Mountains) is a geologic…
A hunt gone wrong! Artistic reconstruction of Otodus megalodon feeding upon an ancient swordfish ~11 – 3.7 million years ago. A puncture injury to the…
New research challenges the current consensus that the radiation of squamates – a key modern group of reptiles that includes lizards and snakes – happened…
Artistic reconstruction of mating position in Olenoides serratus. Credit: Holly Sullivan Fossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their…
200 million-year-old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea…
Fossilized spider from the Aix-en-Provence Formation in France seen in hand sample overlain with fluorescent microscopy image of the same fossil. Under normal lighting the…
Artist’s reconstruction of the feathered pterosaur Tupandactylus, showing the feather types along the bottom of the headcrest: dark monofilaments and lighter-colored branched feathers. Credit: ©…
Ichthyosaur ill. Credit: Esther van Hulsen A new study published in PeerJ uses modern methods to understand the preservation of unique ichthyosaur fossils. One complete…
T. rex’s short arms may have lowered risk of bites during feeding frenzies. Over the two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian taught a freshman seminar called…
Spinosaurus, the longest predatory dinosaur known, is opening its elongate jaws, studded with conical teeth, to catch a sawskate. Contrary to previous suggestions, this animal…
Spinosaurus, the longest predatory dinosaur known, is opening its elongate jaws, studded with conical teeth, to catch a sawskate. Contrary to previous suggestions, this animal…
Arthropod (Naroia). Credit: Dr. Xiaoya Ma The ancestors of many animal species alive today may have lived in a delta in what is now China,…
Dunkleosteus – one of the animals involved in the research. Credit: Nobu Tamura Researchers led by the University of BristolThe University of Bristol, a red…