3+ hour, 50+ min ago  (433+ words) A tiny reptile that perished in an Oklahoma cave almost 289 million years ago is rewriting the story of how early land animals breathed and how soft tissues can survive through deep time. Researchers say the specimen, preserved in remarkable three-dimensional…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1222+ words) A group of paleontologists working in a dried riverbed in Brazil have uncovered jaw bones that rewrite a corner of early tetrapod diversity. The fossils " nine pieces in total " belong to an animal with a strikingly twisted lower jaw and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1494+ words) Researchers combined fossil CT scans with comparisons to living birds and reptiles to rebuild the soft-tissue layout inside Triceratops skulls. Their work suggests the dinosaur's nose was much more than a scent organ; it was an anatomical solution to a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1263+ words) A nearly complete, palm-sized dinosaur unearthed in northern Patagonia is reshaping scientists" ideas about a strange lineage of bird-like reptiles. The fossil, identified as Alnashetri cerropoliciensis and dated to roughly 90 million years ago, gives researchers an unprecedented blueprint for a…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1472+ words) On a sunlit stretch of Italian coastline, climbers brushing chalk from their hands noticed something odd carved across a limestone cliff: long, parallel furrows that didn't match the usual scars of weather or human activity. The grooves sat on a…...