19+ hour, 3+ min ago   (277+ words) A small iguanodontian fossil from Japan adds evidence that Late Cretaceous coastal ecosystems supported dinosaurs of widely different body sizes. Iguanodontians were widespread plant-eating dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic through the Late Cretaceous. Their movement between Asia, North…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (659+ words) The specimen was retrieved from a carnivorous animal, likely either a Tyrannosaurus rex or Nanotyrannus Scientists have uncovered exceptionally preserved bird feathers within a piece of fossilised dinosaur excrement dating back 66 million years, offering fresh insights into one of palaeontology's…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (220+ words) An illustration of pterosaurs. /VCG A science museum focused on pterosaurs, a winged reptile closely related to dinosaurs, opened on Sunday in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China. The world's first of its kind, this museum is located in…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (216+ words) URUMQI - A science museum focused on pterosaurs, a winged reptile closely related to dinosaurs, opened on Sunday in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in Northwest China. The world's first of its kind, this museum is located in a national geopark in…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (216+ words) URUMQI - A science museum focused on pterosaurs, a winged reptile closely related to dinosaurs, opened on Sunday in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in Northwest China. The world's first of its kind, this museum is located in a national geopark in…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (344+ words) When the fossil was first spotted on Seymour Island in 2011, no one knew what it was. The structure was flattened and paper-thin, unlike the rigid shells typically preserved in the fossil record. For years, it resisted classification. Nearly a decade…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (452+ words) A routine mining survey in China turned into something no one on the team was prepared for: a dinosaur fossil that had been hiding underground for 115 million years. What they found next left even the experts divided. A copper mineral…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (813+ words) Paleontology can be quite physical. In 2016, David DeMar was doing field work in the rocky badlands of Montana in what's known as the Hell Creek Formation. "We all get down on our hands and knees," he recalls. "And I start…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (310+ words) Birds evolved from dinosaurs. They share a common ancestor and physical traits — some dinosaurs even had feathers. But while these dinosaurs are thought to have had "fuzzy" or "downy" feathers, ancient birds were more likely to have had feathers that…...