Remarkably preserved feathered dinosaur discovered in China reveals new secrets of flying predator evolution
A newly discovered feathered dinosaur named Norellraptor barsboldi had sharply curved teeth and claws, as well as four wings, and it adds evidence to the idea that flight evolved several times in diff...
Independent assembly of the flight apparatus in a non-avian dinosaur clade
Ancient bird becomes second Australian species to be named from the Cretaceous period
A pair of exceptionally rare Cretaceous bird bones found at separate sites near Richmond, Queensland, reveal a previously unknown species—the second formally named Cretaceous bird from Australia. Cret...
A revised early Jurassic to Albian chronology for dinosaur evolution in tropical Asia
Scientists were wrong about this strange mammal for nearly 40 years
A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 years. Tamirkhan balcarceli shows that zhelestids were not early relatives of...
An ancient human face emerges from pieced together Moroccan fossil remains
In the 1960s, a miner working at a mineral extraction site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, struck something far more valuable than any mineral in the area: a skull with distinctly humanlike features. After ...
A polyphyodont, semiaquatic eutriconodontan mammal from the Early Cretaceous of China
These are the first feathers ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop
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1.7-billion-year-old fossils reveal a crucial clue to the rise of complex life
Scientists studying ancient Australian rocks uncovered more than 12,000 fossils from some of the oldest known eukaryotes on Earth. These early complex cells lived in settings ranging from coastal mudf...
A 9-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Challenged What Scientists Thought They Knew About the Atacama Desert
Scientists were surprised to discover a fossilized tooth from a capybara that lived almost 9 million years ago in what is now northern Chile’s Atacama Desert. Chile’s Atacama Desert is an unlikely pla...
Fossilized Vomit Reveals a Surprising Secret About Plesiosaur Behavior
Unusual fossils from an ancient North Sea delta may reveal where plesiosaurs fed. Fossilized vomit is not the kind of evidence paleontologists usually dream about finding. But it may have revealed an ...
Guatemala ensures survival of vulnerable 'fossil' fish
In a freshwater canal surrounded by mangroves in southern Guatemala, hundreds of baby tropical gars—a torpedo-shaped fish with an alligator-like snout dubbed the "fossil fish"—are released into the wi...
A treasure map to search for past marine life
Fossils offer a glimpse into Earth's distant past. They provide insights into extinct animals and plants, as well as past ecosystems. However, the fossil record is incomplete: Fossilization is rare, a...
Rare armored dinosaur found in Japan may have ancestors that migrated across a land bridge 100 million years ago
The newly described dinosaur is only the third nodosaurid fossil found in Asia. Researchers say its ancestors may have migrated from North America.
'Jumping genes' helped ants in their evolutionary triumph after the extinction of the dinosaurs
About 66 million years ago, the asteroid that ended the age of the dinosaurs paved the way for a spectacular expansion of new animal species. During this period, ants rose to ecological dominance. Tod...
New species of proto-amphibian described by students, named in honor of their mothers
Around 309 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs, the area around Chicago was a swampy river delta swarming with early land-dwelling animals, giant insects and strange swimming animals. What wa...
A broken rib from the world’s largest T. rex hid a 66-million-year-old secret
A broken rib from Scotty, the largest known T. rex skeleton, contains an extraordinary fossilized network of blood vessels formed while the dinosaur was healing. Scientists used neutron and X-ray imag...
Bizarre new dinosaur with giant claws discovered in China
It walked on two legs and may have looked like a feathered bear with giant claws. Meet Kayrasaurus changliensis—well, its almost complete skeleton, to be precise.
Earth's first bats didn't come from where we thought, landmark genetic study reveals
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers compiled data from 103 bat genomes and 44 fossils to rewrite the bat family tree and determine where these animals first evolved.