Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago

Accounting for sampling heterogeneity suggests a low paleolatitude origin for dinosaurs

Palaeontologists have described a new genus and species of Carcharodontosauridae, Tameryraptor markgrafi, based on material from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt.

Paleontologists in the United States have uncovered the fossilized remains of a new species of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in the northern hemisphere (supercontinent Laurasia) during the Carnian age of the Late Triassic epoch…

Fossil amphibian offers insights into the interplay between monsoons and amphibian evolution in palaeoequatorial Late Triassic systems..

Daily records of over 53 years in a 10 million-year-old giant clam offer a glimpse of climate variability in the late Miocene

The earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in a hot equatorial region in what was then the supercontinent Gondwana, an area of land that encompasses the Amazon, Congo basin, and Sahara Desert today.

Humans, not climate change, may have wiped out Australia’s giant kangaroos

'Dog-Like' Fossil Discovery May Be Oldest Known Saber-Toothed Animal

Study extends chart of life by nearly 1.5 billion years

Toddler’s bones have revealed shocking dietary preferences of ancient Americans

A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression

Mysterious 193 million-year-old plant-eating dinosaur discovered in China

Lizards and snakes are 35 million years older than we thought | Reanalysis of a fossil finds that reptiles' traits go back earlier than we thought.

Footprints reveal the coexistence of two human species 1.5 million years ago

Newly described Flesh-Eating 'Terror Bird' May Have Stood Over 3 Meters (9 feet) Tall, Far Larger Than its Relative

A Late Devonian coelacanth reconfigures actinistian phylogeny, disparity, and evolutionary dynamics

Pre-inventing the wheel: 12,000-year-old pebbles an early sign of spinning technology

Several Denisovan populations, who likely had an extensive geographical range, were adapted to distinct environments and passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding events that helped shape early human history.

Palaeontologists have described a new, large Jurassic pterosaur, Skiphosoura bavarica, that helps bridge the gap between current intermediate pterosaurs and the pterodactyloids.

Palaeontologists have described a new genus and species of amphisbaenian (worm lizard), Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi, from the Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia, estimated to have been the largest of its kind and with a bite force that could crush a wide variety of snails.

90-million-year-old amber discovered in Antarctica reveals secrets of ancient forest

180-Million-Year-Old Cockroach Fossil Found in UK

Early evidence of symbiosis found in ancient coral

First-ever evidence of 16-million-year-old extinct sawfly species discovered

Scientists Find Evidence for Hominin Exploitation of Extinct Straight-Tusked Elephants in India

Scientists have found a head of an Arthropleura, the largest arthropod to ever live

Microraptorine Dinosaur Footprints Shed New Light on Origin of Flight

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact Turned Ants into Fungus Farmers, Study Says

Ancient DNA from humans and canines is helping to untangle the history of European colonization in North America.

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