Earth’s first major extinction was worse than we thought
Fossil finds suggest nearly 80% of life on Earth died some 550 million years ago
Dinosaur fossils in Brazil reveal new giant species
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Three new rock monitor lizard species discovered in northern Queensland
Three striking new species of rock-dwelling monitor lizards have been formally described from the savannas of northeastern Queensland, revealing a previously unrecognized evolutionary lineage. The dis...
75-Million-Year-Old Mystery: Scientists Uncover Tyrannosaurs’ Dark Secret
3D analysis of bite marks on a tyrannosaur foot bone shows that smaller tyrannosaurs scavenged carcasses, likely consuming the final remains after most flesh was gone. Tyrannosaurs are usually imagine...
400 million-year-old fish fossils reveal how life began moving onto land
Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates that eventually moved onto land. By reanalyzing mysterious fossils from Au...
This Ancient Fossil Bird Has 800 Stones in Its Throat and No One Knows Why
The new species, named after the electro funk band Chromeo, helps explain the larger story of why only one small group of dinosaurs survived the extinction. A fossil rarely reveals an animal’s entire ...
This Giant Dinosaur Walked in Circles 150 Million Years Ago – Scientists Uncover Its Secrets
A rare looping dinosaur trackway in Colorado reveals new clues about sauropod movement and hints that the massive animal may have walked with a limp. Researchers studying an unusual looping trail of f...
This 2-pound dinosaur is rewriting what scientists know about evolution
A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis r...
We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed
Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist Michael Marshall reveals what new fossils are telling us about the hominins ...
Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence
Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ostrich-like adult
A new Middle Jurassic marine reptile from Gondwana clarifies the origin of Cryptoclidia, the most successful group of plesiosaurs
Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 12, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
Lower Ordovician (Floian) conodonts from the Western Puna Magmatic Belt in northwestern Argentina: palaeobiogeographic significance and implications
Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 12, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
New fossil reveals the weird 'tooth cushions' of an apex predator from 425 million years ago
Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of spiky teeth.
These Tiny Teeth Could Change What We Know About Human Origins
Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans. Scientists have discovered tiny fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest known relativ...
Largest known Mesozoic crocodyliform egg clutch discovered in Brazil
In a study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, researchers Dr. Giovanna M. X. Paixão and her colleagues analyzed the fossilized remains of three Upper Cretaceous egg clutches. One of ...
Strange 90-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil Rewrites History
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T. rex took 40 years to reach full size, study finds
Tyrannosaurus rex may have taken far longer to grow up than scientists once thought. By analyzing growth rings in fossilized leg bones from 17 tyrannosaur specimens and using new statistical methods, ...
Paleontologists challenge use of bone growth rings to age crocodiles, dinosaurs
Do the bones of all Nile crocodiles have the same number of growth marks as their age? And can such growth rings be counted to accurately gauge the age of these reptiles? Is this also an accurate meth...
Largest Silurian fish illuminates the origin of osteichthyan characters
Osteichthyans (bony fishes and tetrapods) encompass 98% of modern vertebrate species. However, our understanding of the sequence of character evolution among stem osteichthyans has been substantially ...