Just Like Homo sapiens, Neanderthals Organized Their Living Space in Structured Way

The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in Palaeozoic jawless fishes

Ancient Marine Tapeworm Found Encased in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber

Recent research indicates that while elevated growth rates were ancestral to Dinosauria and likely played a significant role in dinosaurs’ ascent within Mesozoic ecosystems, it did not distinguish them from their contemporaries.

T. rex not as smart as previously claimed, scientists find

New study explores the preservation of 12,000 year-old brains

A new giant podocnemidid turtle, among the largest freshwater turtles ever found, from the Late Pleistocene Rio Madeira Formation in the Brazilian Amazon…

Chakisaurus - newly described ornithopod dinosaur

New species of vampire squid found fossilized "with prey in its arms"

Paleontologists discover a 240-million-year-old fossil in full

These 3,000-Year-Old Treasures Were Forged From Meteoritic Iron

A new estimate considerably reduces the weight of the fossil whale Perucetus colossus, leaving the modern blue whale as the heaviest animal ever known.

Detection of intact polyene pigments in Miocene gastropod shells [12-million-year-old snail shells]

Palaeontologists have identified a new genus and species of dwarf lambeosaurine hadrosaurid in Morocco, dating to the Late Cretaceous epoch.

Fossil forgery: 280-million-year-old reptile is just black paint on rock

The fossils of two new species of ctenacanth sharks have been identified in Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.

400 ancient fossils dating back 470 million years found in France

Palaeontologists have described a new species of the extinct lamniform shark based on 17 fossilised teeth derived from the Porters Creek Formation in Alabama.

A new study suggests the diversification of modern birds began in the Late Cretaceous and underwent gradual radiation across the K-Pg boundary.

A new species of petrosaur identified from fossils in Scotland suggests that all principal Jurassic petrosaur clades evolved before the end of the Early Jurassic.

Scientists define a new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle-Late Devonian of central Australia.

Palaeontologists have identified fossil fragments from a new genus and species of titanosaurian sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, China.

Contrary to what has long been believed, there was no peaceful transition of power from hunter-gather societies to farming communities in Europe, with new advanced DNA analysis revealing that the newcomers slaughtered the existing population, completely wiping them out within a few generations.

Reanalysis of an improved dataset finds insufficient evidence for anagenesis within Tyrannosaurus-line tyrannosaurines as the primary driver in their evolution.

Early eukaryotic microfossils of the late Palaeoproterozoic Limbunya Group, Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia

A newly identified ‘Hell chicken’ species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit, with fossil finds indicating diverse species thriving towards the end of Cretaceous era

Early fossil identified as new species of Tyrannosaurus

New Prehistoric Cat Species Discovered in Spain

A new study describing a microscopic, algalike fossil dating back more than 1.6 billion years supports the idea that one of the hallmarks of the complex life we see around us—multicellularity— is much older than previously thought.

Oldest skin fossil, dating back 21 million years, found in Oklahoma

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