New Feathered Dinosaur May Have Solved a 120-Million-Year-Old Fossil Mystery
A newly discovered feathered dinosaur from China may help solve a long-standing mystery surrounding a fossil bed filled with ancient bird remains. For years, one fossil site in northwestern China has ...
New species of Middle Miocene bear-dog described in tribute to Salvador Moyà-Solà
A research team with the participation of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) has described a new species of extinct carnivore from fossil remains recovered at the Els Casots s...
The missing notebooks that solved a 55-million-year-old fossil mystery
A spectacular fossil fish discovered on a remote cliff in New Zealand nearly 30 years ago has finally revealed its full story thanks to an unexpected discovery: the original collector’s long-lost fiel...
Buried for 1.7 Billion Years: These Ancient Fossils May Rewrite the Story of Complex Life
Ancient Australian fossils indicate that the earliest eukaryotes depended on oxygen, providing new evidence that oxygen helped enable the evolution of complex life. Stored in an open-air warehouse in ...
Smuggled dinosaur fossils return to Mongolia after two decades
Mongolia has recovered a rare dinosaur skeleton and a trove of fossils illegally exported two decades ago, authorities said Wednesday, concluding years of efforts to return the paleontological treasur...
Whale graveyard discovered 7km under the sea
Nature, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01886-x The treasure trove of fossils and bones has already revealed a new species of extinct whale.
Confirmation that bryozoan animals were present during the Cambrian explosion
Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean ‘necropolis’
Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science
Immense whale ‘graveyard’ discovered in the deep sea
Stretching 1200 kilometers, the unusual collection of carcasses includes fossils older than 5 million years
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10546-z Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, spe...
Fossil discovery shows the interaction between giant marine reptiles
Approximately 160 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs, giant marine reptiles ruled the seas. One such creature, an ichthyosaur, swam in a sea near present-day Peterborough, England. This hu...
A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds
The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of sexual reproduction, which in turn accelerated th...
Digestion corrosion marks on a hatchling Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda) maxilla from the Upper Jurassic of Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal)
Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 12, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
A new large paracrocodylomorph archosaurian from the Tarjadia Assemblage Zone (upper Ladinian to lower Carnian) of the Chañares Formation (Argentina) and a revision of key loricatan features
Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 12, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
How did so many theropod dinosaurs come to have tiny arms?
Shrunken forelimbs were likely a byproduct of large, powerful skulls—with one notable exception
120,000-year-old European fallow deer—tracing the loss of genetic diversity
European fallow deer have faced a dramatic loss of genetic diversity since the last interglacial period. This was revealed by 120,000-year-old fossils from central Germany's Neumark-Nord site in Saxon...
World's largest scorpion had 6-inch pincers, and prowled UK land and waters 415 million years ago
Enigmatic 415 million-year-old fossils belong to a giant scorpion that may have reached lengths of around 3 feet (1 meter), a remarkable body size because most life on land at that time was small.
Briefing chat: Spinosaurs with salt glands could have lived in marine environments
Scientists discover a new species of four-"winged" microraptor dinosaur, Jian changmaensis, that likely glided like a flying squirrel and targeted prehistoric birds 120 million years ago.
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New Velociraptor cousin was a '4-winged' dragon that hunted prey from the trees of ancient China, fossil find hints
A new microraptor from Cretaceous China likely preyed on ancient birds.