265 million years ago, Pampaphoneus biccai was South America’s apex predator. A well-preserved fossil found in Brazil offers new insights into this prehistoric giant. Artistic…
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The Bakken Shale Formation has offered a new insight into Earth’s geological history, revealing a major trigger for several biotic crises during the late Devonian…
Image of fruit belonging to Palaeophytocrene chicoensis. The Sierra College Museum of Natural History is the permanent repository for this fossil. Credit: Brian Atkinson An…
A juvenile Edmontosaurus disappears into the enormous, lipped mouth of Tyrannosaurus. Credit: Mark Witton A recent study challenges the depiction of predatory dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus…
A juvenile Edmontosaurus disappears into the enormous, lipped mouth of Tyrannosaurus. Credit: Mark Witton A new study challenges the long-held belief that large theropod dinosaurs,…
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered a new species of ancient beaver in their fossil collections and named it “Anchitheriomys buceei”…
A reconstruction of Thylacosmilus atrox. Credit: © Jorge Blanco How the “Marsupial Sabertooth” Thylacosmilus Saw Its World Study describes how extinct hypercarnivore likely achieved 3D…
A rendering of the sauropod known as Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, which had a 15-meter-long neck. Credit: © Júlia d’Oliveira With their long necks and formidable bodies,…
Fossil of the Late Jurassic shark Protospinax annectans from Solnhofen and Eichstätt, Germany. Credit: Sebastian Stumpf The evolutionary history of sharks and rays has been…
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…
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…
Alvarezsaurs claws when digging dirt. Credit: Shuyang Zhou for the 3D modeling and functional scenario restoration The claws of dinosaurs had many functions, but a…
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…
Remains from the Lindegården excavation site at Ribe Cathedral (Denmark) dated between the 9th and 19th centuries. Credit: Museum of Southwest Jutland Researchers Document Evolution…
Artist’s impression of Ceratosuchops and the orientation of the endocast in the skull. Spinosaurs are a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the…
An artist’s concept of Kumimanu and Petradyptes penguins on an ancient New Zealand beach. Kumimanu, the larger of the two, weighed around 340 pounds and…
(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…
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…
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…