1+ hour, 59+ min ago   (450+ words) Cranial fossils of a nodosaurid ankylosaur unearthed more than two decades ago on the Japanese island of Hokkaido have been recognized as belonging to a new genus and species. Nipponopelta yezoensis. Image credit: TotalDino / CC BY 4.0. The newly identified dinosaur…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (59+ words) A fossilized bone unearthed two decades ago in northeastern Japan belongs to one of the smallest iguanodontian dinosaurs ever found in the country’s Cretaceous marine rocks, according to new research led by the University of Tsukuba....

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (388+ words) A new genus and species of sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Triassic period, some 245 million years ago, has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in China. Sauropterygians were a highly successful lineage of paddling marine reptiles that…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (579+ words) Dr. Ian Towle, a researcher with the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University, proposes folding nearly 5 million years of hominin fossils into the genus Homo, arguing that traits once used to separate species — big brains, tool use — no longer hold…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (547+ words) Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of armored, jawless fish from rocks around 419 million years old whose skull was shaped like the wing of a bat and whose unusual head made it an efficient glider through Devonian seas....

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (275+ words) Two fossilized leg bones of Denisovans dredged decades ago from the seafloor off Taiwan indicate that at least some members of the group were remarkably large-bodied....

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (296+ words) Archaeopteryx -- the first ever bird to inhabit the Earth -- may have hopped its way into the air, rather than launching with the single powerful leap modern birds use, according to a new biomechanical study published in the journal Developmental Biology....

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (105+ words) Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what is now Colombia roughly 12 million years ago....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (126+ words) A previously unrecognized species of the antthrush genus Chamaeza has been discovered in the isolated highland rainforests of northeastern Brazil....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (453+ words) An artistic reconstruction of Jabalisaurus tethyensis, depicted in the water column close to the surface while pursuing halecomorph fishes. Image credit: Giovanni Serafini. Jabalisaurus tethyensis swam in the warm waters of the Tethys Ocean during the Late Jurassic epoch, some…...