7+ hour, 34+ min 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…...

6+ day, 2+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 6+ 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…...

2+ week, 3+ hour 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....

2+ week, 4+ 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....

2+ week, 6+ 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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (511+ words) A footprint unearthed by a teenage fossil hunter at Albion in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, in 1958 has now been formally identified as the continent's earliest confirmed dinosaur trace, dating back some 230 million years (Late Triassic epoch) and suggesting dinosaurs roamed what…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago  (627+ words) Using newly-discovered fossils and cutting-edge imaging, paleontologists have solved the puzzle of Europe's missing horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians), reclassifying animals once thought to be distant cousins of Iguanodon as true members of the ceratopsian clade. Reconstruction of the possible appearance of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (587+ words) New research led by University College London paleontologists shows that newly-hatched long-necked giants were prey for multiple carnivores long before Tyrannosaurus rex emerged. Ecosystem reconstruction of the Late Jurassic Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry around 150 million years ago in Colorado, the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (434+ words) Ornithologists with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have stitched together the most complete avian evolutionary tree ever, unveiling surprising relationships and offering bird lovers the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer to trace lineages and evolutionary milestones. European bee-eaters…...