Freak event probably killed last woolly mammoths

Scientists have just revealed their findings on what is the most pristine trilobite fossils ever found dating 510 million years old

Palaeontologists have described a new genus and species of pseudosuchian archosaur, Parvosuchus aurelioi, from the Middle-Late Triassic period, identified from fossils found in the Santa Maria Formation in Brazil.

Palaeontologists have described the geologically oldest sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere, a nothosaur from the Middle Triassic of New Zealand.

Palaeontologists have described a new genus and species of unenlagiine dinosaur named Diuqin lechiguanae from the Upper Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation in Argentina, filling a substantial gap in the fossil record of these theropods…

Micro-CT data reveals new information on the craniomandibular and neuroanatomy of Gordonia traquairi, an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the Late Permian of Scotland.

A team of researchers discovered that framboidal pyrite, an iron-sulfur mineral with characteristic shapes, forms exclusively through biogenic processes

A new legacy: potential of zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry in the analysis of North American megafaunal remains

Researchers have discovered a 550-million-year-old sea sponge from the “lost years” and proposed that the earliest sea sponges had not yet developed mineral skeletons, offering new parameters to the search for the missing fossils

Palaeontologists has unearthed the fossil remains of a pterodactyloid pterosaur with an estimated wingspan of at least 3 m (10 ft), representing one of the largest known examples of a Jurassic pterosaur, and one of the first pterodactyloids to be reported from the Jurassic of the United Kingdom.