progscrape: paleontology

Sebecids, a crocodile-like beast, reached the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago — outlasting mainland kin

14 months ago sciencenews.org paleontology

Fossil of a new mammal species from the Late Cretaceous (100–66 million-year-old) discovered in Mongolia's Gobi desert

14 months ago app.pan.pl paleontology

Trapped in time: 16-million-year-old amber reveals dirt ants once ruled Caribbean

15 months ago royalsocietypublishing.org paleontology

Ancient DNA from the green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage

15 months ago nature.com paleontology

Analysis of 30 year old humerus bone suggests Australian echidnas evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor, challenging the understanding that the monotreme descended from a land-bound ancestor

14 months ago unsw.edu.au australia paleontology

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs

15 months ago bristol.ac.uk paleontology

Fossilised footprints from British Columbia, Canada, confirm the presence of ankylosaurid ankylosaurs in the mid-Cretaceous of North America.

15 months ago tandfonline.com canada paleontology

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong

16 months ago technologynetworks.com paleontology

A Forgotten Boulder in a School Office Turned Out to Have Dinosaur Footprints from 200 Million Years Ago

16 months ago eurekalert.org paleontology

Scientist-President Thomas Jefferson discovered large bones that were initially thought to be from a large cat-like predator, but it was later determined to be from a giant sloth

16 months ago thomasjefferson.com paleontology