Kit Hamley holds a large male sea lion skull from a bone pile at New Island. Dozens of individual sea lions were present throughout the…
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A reconstruction of the skull of Leti, the first Homo naledi child whose remains were found in the Rising Star cave in Johannesburg. Credit: Wits…
Artistic reconstruction of a Mussaurus patagonicus nest. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez New research on a vast fossil site in Patagonia shows that some of the earliest…
Homo bodoensis, a new species of human ancestor, lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene. Credit: Ettore Mazza An international team of researchers, led by…
Fossil Dental Exams Reveal How Tusks Evolved – Originated in “Very Weird Animals” Called Dicynodonts
Life reconstruction of the dicynodont Dicynodon. Aside from the tusks in the upper jaw, most dicynodonts possessed a turtle-like beak that they used to chew…
Baby Deinonychus investigates a Sciroseps pawhuskai on the charred remains of a cycad. Credit: Illustration by Brian Engh, http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com UW Oshkosh vertebrate paleontologist on research…
Artistic reconstruction of Cretapsara athanata: The immortal Cretaceous spirit of the clouds and waters. Credit: Artwork by Franz Anthony, courtesy of Javier Luque (Harvard University).…
Artistic reconstruction of a Mussaurus patagonicus nest. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez Fossils indicate a communal nesting ground and adults who foraged and took care of the…
Life reconstruction of herbivorous dinosaurs based on 220-million-year-old fossil footprints from Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Credit: Anthony Romilio “Raptor-like” dinosaur discovered in an Australian mine, actually…
Cretapsara athanata: The first crab in amber from the dinosaur era. Credit: Xiao Jia (Longyin Amber Museum) Discovery provides new insights into the evolution of…
Tracks in the sand: One of over 50 footprints of predecessors of early humans identified in 2017 near Trachilos, Crete. Dating techniques have now shown…
A trilobite fossil from the Ordovician period, which lasted from about 485 to 443 million years ago. A new analysis of marine fossils from most…
Pendraig milnerae was a small species of carnivorous dinosaur, living in what is now southern Wales. Credit: © James Robbins The oldest-known meat-eating dinosaur discovered…
Artistic reconstruction of Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus gen. et sp. nov. in mosses. Credit: Original art created by Holly Sullivan Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are…
Artist’s impressions of the Spinosaurids. Ceratosuchops inferodios in the foreground, Riparovenator milnerae in the background. Credit: Anthony Hutchings A new study led by paleontologists at…
A team of University of Washington students, volunteers, and staff excavate the Flyby Trike Triceratops in northeastern Montana. Credit: Rachel Ormiston/Burke Museum/University of Washington A…
The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic eruptions over 230 million years ago, a new study reveals. The Late TriassicThe…
Archaehierax sylvestris. Credit: Jacob Blokland 63 bone fossil finding in desert is one of the “best preserved” eagles ever and a very rare discovery. A…
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…
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…