progscrape: paleontology

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.

7 days ago fieldmuseum.org paleontology

Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte

5 days ago science.org paleontology

High-fidelity modular skeletons authenticate a Cambrian origin for Bryozoa

8 days ago nature.com paleontology

Animal, plant, fungal DNA in squirrel latrine paints picture of Arctic grasslands in Age of Mammoths

46 hours ago cbc.ca arctic paleontology

Paleontologists just found the peacock of the dinosaur era: « Dubbed the “Banko’s feather dragon,” the extinct bird’s tail feathers were twice the length of its entire body

11 days ago gizmodo.com paleontology

Why meat-eating dinosaurs like T

21 days ago cam.ac.uk paleontology

Dinosaurs emerged 10 million years before the earliest unambiguous dinosaur fossils

41 days ago royalsocietypublishing.org paleontology

Giant new dinosaur identified from remains found in Thailand.

28 days ago bbc.com paleontology

New large pterosaur tracks from Korea and their implications on terrestrial behavior

40 days ago nature.com paleontology

Scientists believe birds’ skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinosaurs

47 days ago theguardian.com paleontology

Scientists confirm Nanotyrannus was a real, distinct species not a juvenile T. rex

53 days ago science.org paleontology

Oldest octopus fossil is no octopus at all scans reveal.

2 months ago reading.ac.uk paleontology

Fossil from about half a billion years ago reveals that an early relative of spiders and scorpions had claws

2 months ago sciencenews.org paleontology

Fossils reveal many complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion

2 months ago sciencenews.org paleontology

A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest Norian or Rhaetian) highlights herrerasaurian diversity in the latest Triassic

55 days ago onlinelibrary.wiley.com paleontology usa

Modern apes may have actually evolved in North Africa or the Middle East

2 months ago sciencenews.org paleontology

Buried for 68 Million Years, Scientists Just Found a Dinosaur Egg Inside Another Egg

3 months ago indiandefencereview.com paleontology

Earth’s first major extinction was worse than we thought. Fossil finds suggest nearly 80% of life on Earth died some 550 million years ago

3 months ago science.org earth paleontology

First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought.

3 months ago bbc.com paleontology

The world’s oldest known vertebrates had two pairs of eyes

3 months ago newatlas.com paleontology

Scientists discover new dinosaur species deep in the Sahara Desert

3 months ago abcnews.com paleontology

Discovery of Mammoth Ivory Tools Resets Human Timeline in North America

4 months ago sciencealert.com paleontology

Tiny New Species of Herbivorous Dinosaur Unearthed in Spain

4 months ago sci.news paleontology

Ancient bone found in Spain could be from Hannibal's war elephants - An elephant foot bone found by archaeologists digging in southern Spain may be evidence that a troop of war elephants stomped through ancient Europe.

3 months ago bbc.com europe paleontology

Nerinea used to build huge banks across the Mesozoic, but while they flourished in the tropics, they seem to have had their starts in the high latitudes and expanded as climate shifted.

4 months ago pubs.geoscienceworld.org paleontology

A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe

4 months ago nature.com europe paleontology

Paleontologists Unearth New Species of Titanosaur in Argentina

4 months ago sci.news paleontology

Slow grower: Tyrannosaurus rex didn’t reach full size until age 40, « Famed dino likely spent much of its life competing for food against smaller predators

4 months ago science.org paleontology

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus

4 months ago scientificamerican.com paleontology

A Thick-Skulled Troodontid Theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico

4 months ago mdpi.com paleontology

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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.

Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte

High-fidelity modular skeletons authenticate a Cambrian origin for Bryozoa

Animal, plant, fungal DNA in squirrel latrine paints picture of Arctic grasslands in Age of Mammoths

Paleontologists just found the peacock of the dinosaur era: « Dubbed the “Banko’s feather dragon,” the extinct bird’s tail feathers were twice the length of its entire body

Why meat-eating dinosaurs like T

Dinosaurs emerged 10 million years before the earliest unambiguous dinosaur fossils

Giant new dinosaur identified from remains found in Thailand.

New large pterosaur tracks from Korea and their implications on terrestrial behavior

Scientists believe birds’ skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinosaurs

Scientists confirm Nanotyrannus was a real, distinct species not a juvenile T. rex

Oldest octopus fossil is no octopus at all scans reveal.

Fossil from about half a billion years ago reveals that an early relative of spiders and scorpions had claws

Fossils reveal many complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion

A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest Norian or Rhaetian) highlights herrerasaurian diversity in the latest Triassic

Modern apes may have actually evolved in North Africa or the Middle East

Buried for 68 Million Years, Scientists Just Found a Dinosaur Egg Inside Another Egg

Earth’s first major extinction was worse than we thought. Fossil finds suggest nearly 80% of life on Earth died some 550 million years ago

First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought.

The world’s oldest known vertebrates had two pairs of eyes

Scientists discover new dinosaur species deep in the Sahara Desert

Discovery of Mammoth Ivory Tools Resets Human Timeline in North America

Tiny New Species of Herbivorous Dinosaur Unearthed in Spain

Ancient bone found in Spain could be from Hannibal's war elephants - An elephant foot bone found by archaeologists digging in southern Spain may be evidence that a troop of war elephants stomped through ancient Europe.

Nerinea used to build huge banks across the Mesozoic, but while they flourished in the tropics, they seem to have had their starts in the high latitudes and expanded as climate shifted.

A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe

Paleontologists Unearth New Species of Titanosaur in Argentina

Slow grower: Tyrannosaurus rex didn’t reach full size until age 40, « Famed dino likely spent much of its life competing for food against smaller predators

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus

A Thick-Skulled Troodontid Theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico