4+ hour, 12+ min ago  (568+ words) More than 80 million years ago, a giant marine predator cruised through the ancient inland sea that once split North America in two. Now, scientists say the creature preserved in fossils across Texas was not just another mosasaur, but an entirely…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (424+ words) Egypt's Mansoura University has announced the discovery of a new species of great ape ancestor, a finding that could reshape understanding of early primate evolution and shift the geographic narrative of where great apes originated. The newly discovered species, named…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (839+ words) In the Sahara Desert of Niger, scientists have discovered fossils of a new kind of Spinosaurus, a discovery that can shed new light on one of the largest predators of dinosaurs to have ever lived on Earth. It was named…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (488+ words) Scientists have discovered the skull of a 307-million-year-old creature in Canada's Nova Scotia that is among the oldest known plant-eating vertebrates to have lived on land, offering new insight into a crucial stage of animal evolution. The fossil represents an…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (353+ words) A fossil discovered by a 12-year-old in Beijing has helped close a significant gap in Asia's Middle Jurassic fossil record, with researchers confirming it as the region's first known amphibian footprint from the period. The findings were published last week…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (439+ words) Trying to bring down a fully grown Brachiosaurus would have been a reckless gamble for any predator. Weighing as much as 60 tonnes and towering over most other dinosaurs, the long-necked giant was among the largest land animals ever to walk…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (458+ words) Paleontologists have uncovered the oldest known dinosaur footprints from Chile and the western margin of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, shedding new light on dinosaur life in the Southern Hemisphere during the Late Jurassic period, around 160 million years ago. The discovery…...

8+ mon, 4+ day ago  (421+ words) The fossil is from a juvenile of a species that has not yet been identified and is being named Zavacephale rinpoche. It is thought to have existed between 108 and 115 million years ago. A team led by paleontologist Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig of…...