Stunning fossil from Australian outback reveals pliosaur killed a sea monster that had just eaten a pterosaur
Using advanced neutron imaging, researchers scanning fossils from Queensland uncovered clues about the complex food chain of prehistoric Earth.
300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Babies Challenge the Textbook Story of Life’s Move Onto Land
Fossils of young tetrapods suggest that the common ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not evolve from animals with tadpole-like larvae, as scientists once thought. The first animals to ...
Cambrian small shelly fossils from North Greenland (eastern Laurentia; Series 2, Stage 4) with regional and global correlations
Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 12, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
This school-bus-sized “terror croc” ate dinosaurs. Now it’s back
A massive crocodilian capable of attacking dinosaurs has been brought back to life as the first scientifically accurate mounted skeleton of Deinosuchus schwimmeri. The 31-foot replica at Georgia’s Tel...
Did T. rex leave these 66-million-year-old bite marks?
Fossilized dinosaur bones from Wyoming are offering a rare glimpse into the feeding behavior of Tyrannosaurus rex. Researchers examined more than 3,000 bones dating back 72 to 66 million years and fou...
80-million-year-old snake brain reveals a surprising evolutionary secret
An exceptionally preserved snake fossil from Brazil reveals that early snakes were far more diverse than scientists once thought. Detailed brain reconstructions show that Tametara mirim was adapted fo...
Fossils from Wyoming's Smiley Draw deepen understanding of early primate evolution
A new study from the University of Kansas complicates the picture of primates living in North America some 55 million years ago during the Eocene, a warm period that allowed mammals to diversify quick...
A study of fossilized feces from across the Cambrian period found that the explosion of life around 540 million years ago could have been partly driven by the buildup of excrement produced by primitive sea creatures.
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518-million-year-old creature reveals the origins of spider fangs
A tiny 518-million-year-old sea creature has revealed the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became spiders’ fangs. Hidden inside the fossil were pincerlike limbs and preserved ...
A giant plagiosaurid temnospondyl from Bjørnøya (Svalbard, Norway) and the origin of the plagiosaurid body plan
Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 12, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
A forgotten fossil just revealed a new Triassic predator from 210 million years ago
A fossil overlooked for nearly 80 years has revealed a previously unknown crocodile relative that lived 210 million years ago in what is now New Mexico. Named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, the jackal-size...
Cretaceous zhelestid mammals are zalambdalestoids
The first known cephalopod was only a millimetre long and lived about 520 million years ago
Earliest siphuncle-bearing cephalopod from the early Cambrian
This 518-Million-Year-Old Creature Reveals How Spiders Got Their Bite
Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan University identified an ancient member of the chelicerate group. Beneath the rock surrounding a tiny fossil from southern China, two small limbs...
Forgotten for 20 Years, This 240-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a New Reptile Species
Fragmentary bones from Brazil reveal a new Triassic reptile close to the lineage that preceded dinosaurs and crocodiles. Some 240 million years ago, long before dinosaurs dominated the land and modern...
Briefing Chat: Baby T. rex were killers from birth, suggest new fossils
Nature, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02338-2 Nature staff discuss the young but deadly dinosaur kings, the prowess of ancient Egyptian princesses, and how London is becoming ...
New giant salamander species discovered in 3.5-million-year-old fossils
Fossils discovered in Japan more than two decades ago have finally been identified as a new genus and species of giant salamander. Limnospondylus ajimuensis lived around 3.5 million years ago in a war...
Ancient ape fossil in Egypt challenges the story of human origins
A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged. Analyses place it closer to living apes than any known East African species...
Storms that built a graveyard: Ancient monsoons created a spectacular dinosaur fossil site
Around 80 million years ago, a stretch of tropical coastline in what is now northeastern Italy was lashed by monsoon rains and tropical cyclones. Those storms swept dinosaur carcasses, crocodiles, pla...