1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (416+ words) Paleontologists at the University of Toronto Mississauga have found dozens of tooth marks on the fossilized bones of three juveniles of Diadectes, one of the earliest large plant-eating vertebrates to walk on land. The scars offer what the researchers say…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (632+ words) Fossils trapped in amber aren't just beautiful, they may preserve real ecological interactions, including possible parasitism or commensal relationships between ants and mites, as revealed by a new, cutting-edge morphological study of six specimens of Baltic, Dominican and Burmese amber....

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (308+ words) Alnashetri cerropoliciensis lived in what is now Argentina during the Cenomanian age of Late Cretaceous epoch, some 90 million years ago. First described in 2012 from fragmentary remains, the species belongs to a group of bird-like dinosaurs called the Alvarezsauroidea. These small…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (11+ words) Early Triassic Fossils from Australia Uncover Diverse Marine Amphibian Community'Sci.News...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (542+ words) New research recalibrates the age of the Jordan Valley's Ubeidiya Formation to nearly two million years, putting it on par with the famous site of Dmanisi in Georgia. This could mark a pivotal moment in human evolution " evidence that early…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (591+ words) For decades, depictions of Triceratops and its kin have been driven by bone alone. Now, paleontologists in Japan have mapped the soft-tissue anatomy of these horned dinosaurs, revealing unexpected structures that may explain how they regulated temperature and breathed. Triceratops…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (617+ words) Tyrannoroter heberti, a new species of pantylid "microsaur" from the Carboniferous period, shows that some of Earth"s earliest land vertebrates had already evolved complex teeth for grinding plants, suggesting terrestrial herbivory emerged rapidly after animals moved onto land. Life…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (455+ words) Paleontologists in China have discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a previously unknown species of iguanodontian dinosaur that preserves exceptionally detailed fossilized skin, including structures unlike anything seen in other non-avian dinosaur fossils. Life reconstruction of a juvenile Haolong dongi....

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (606+ words) New research led by Field Museum of Natural History paleontologists suggests that Archaeopteryx, the oldest known bird, had a feeding apparatus shaped by early flight pressures, hinting that its diet and aerodynamics evolved together in the dawn of avian history....

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (547+ words) In two separate studies, paleontologists in Australia and China examined the fossilized remains of enigmatic Devonian lungfish with cutting-edge imaging, revealing overlooked anatomical details and deepening our understanding of early vertebrate evolution. Their results appear in the Canadian Journal of…...