The dispersal of the Vishnuonyx otters from the Indian subcontinent to Africa and Europe about 13 million years ago. The star (HAM 4) shows the…
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This image shows a bone tool from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco that was used for leather working 120,000 to 90,000 years ago. Credit: Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni…
The Kawhia giant penguin Kairuku waewaeroa. Credit Simone Giovanardi A giant fossilized penguin discovered by New Zealand school children has been revealed as a new…
An artist’s depiction of a Kaili Leanchoilia showing its long scissor-like appendages situated behind sideward eyes on stubby stalks. Fourteen pairs of appendages likely served…
All living snakes evolved from a handful of species that survived the giant asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and most other living things…
500-Million-Year-Old “Worm-Like” Fossil Represents Rare Discovery of Ancient Animal in North America
500-Million-Year-Old “Worm-Like” Fossil Represents Rare Discovery of Ancient Animal in North America
Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a rare, 500-million-year-old “worm-like” fossil called a palaeoscolecid, which is an uncommon fossil group in North America.…
Artist’s reconstruction of Carnotaurus based on the scaly skin of described in the present study. Credit: Illustration by Jake Baardse Scientists Reveal the Fossilized Skin…
A new dinosaur from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, was described from a single maxilla fossil. The University of Tsukuba-led research team…
View of Titanokorys gainesi reconstruction. Credit: Illustration by Lars Fields, © Royal Ontario Museum Royal Ontario Museum paleontologists unearth one of the largest radiodonts of…
Mosasaurs are a group of marine reptiles that would have lived in the Cretaceous Period. Credit: Thomas Miller (c) / Badlands Natural History Association Researchers…
Tupandactylus navigans (artist’s rendering). Credit: Victor Beccari Complete skeleton provides first look at entire body of Tupandactylus navigans. A fossil acquired in a police raid…
New research from Portland State University sheds light on the diets of the Late JurassicThe Jurassic (from the Jura Mountains) is a geologic period and…
Life reconstruction of Taytalura in its natural habitat with the extinct conifer Rhexoxylon in Ischigualasto (Argentina) during the Late Triassic, hiding from the primitive dinosaur…
Hypothesized distribution of nerves in the mandible of Tyrannosaurus (orange). Credit: Historical Biology – Complex neurovascular system in the dentary of Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus rex’s ‘bite…
An illustration of an adult male woolly mammoth navigates a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska, 17,100 years ago. The image is produced from an original,…
Left to right, Conacodon hettingeri, Miniconus jeanninae, Beornus honeyi. Credit: Banana Art Studio Research published today in the peer-reviewed Journal of Systematic Palaeontology describes the discovery of…
An illustration of an adult male woolly mammoth navigates a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska, 17,100 years ago. The image is produced from an original,…
A transparent 3D model of the fossil bird skull and brain (in pink). Credit: Christopher Torres / The University of Texas at Austin Today, being…
Life reconstruction of Heterodontosaurus vocalizing on a cool Jurassic morning. Credit: Viktor Radermacher Using an exceptionally preserved fossil from South Africa, a particle accelerator, and…
The mummified sheep leg from which DNA was obtained. Image courtesy of Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. Credit:…