1+ day, 5+ min ago  (739+ words) Ornithologists have discovered a new species of tinamou living in the montane forests of the Serra do Divisor, western Amazonia, Brazil. An individual of Tinamus resonans at Morro Queimado, Serra do Divisor National Park, M'ncio Lima, Acre, Brazil. Image credit:…...

4+ day, 36+ min ago  (546+ words) The newly-discovered theropod and sauropod footprints are part of the Late Jurassic Majala Formation, and represent the oldest dinosaur footprints reported for Chile and the western margin of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. "The Late Jurassic fossil record exhibits notable disparities…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (943+ words) University of Maryland paleontologist Thomas R. Holtz Jr. has spent decades puzzling over how dinosaurs fit into their ancient worlds " and how those worlds differ from our own. His latest research reveals that scientists may have missed something important when comparing…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (487+ words) Scientists have long known that fluid inclusions in halite crystals contain samples of the early Earth's atmosphere. But teasing accurate measurements out of those inclusions has proven to be a formidable challenge: they contain both air bubbles and brine, and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (453+ words) This image shows a Neanderthal and a human kid. Image credit: Neanderthal Museum. During the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic, Neanderthal populations across Europe, especially on the Iberian Peninsula, experienced a steady decline leading to their extinction....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (622+ words) This fossil of Anchiornis huxleyi exhibits nearly complete wings and preservation of feather coloration, allowing for a detailed identification of wing morphology. Image credit: Kiat et al., doi: 10.1038/s42003-025-09019-2. "This finding has broad significance, as it suggests that the development of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (788+ words) Life reconstruction of the tracemaking bee nesting inside a cave and using bone cavities as containing chambers for some of the brooding cells. Image credit: Jorge Mario Macho. "The initial descent into the cave isn't too deep " we would tie…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (522+ words) Paleoanthropologists have examined and reconstructed DAN5, a 1.5-million-year-old fossilized skull of early Homo erectus found in Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia. This is an artist's reconstruction of Homo erectus. Image credit: Yale University. "We already knew that the DAN5 fossil…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago  (707+ words) Paleontologists have unearthed a dense assemblage of dugong remains at the site of Al Maszhabiya in the Early Miocene Dam Formation of Qatar. This fossil site shows that the Arabian Gulf has repeatedly evolved sea cow communities with different species…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (459+ words) New research led by scientists from the University of Cambridge and Latrobe University challenges the classification of the Little Foot fossil as Australopithecus prometheus. The Little Foot fossil in the Sterkfontein cave, central South Africa. Image credit: Purdue University. The…...