Paleontology

Fossils Dinosaurs Evolution Dinosaur Fossils Fossil Discovery Dinosaur Discovery Dinosaur Studies Fossil Analysis Extinct Species Prehistoric Animals

Alabama Researchers Name New Fossil Crab for Nick Saban as Coach Calls It an Honor

The Lowndes County cache reveals an unusually diverse post-extinction community of crabs and shrimps in North America.

Jurassic 'False Snake' From Skye Described as New Species, Complicating Snake Origins

67-Million-Year-Old Alberta Fossil Recasts Otophysan Fish Origins

Digitally Rebuilt Million-Year-Old Skull From China Recasts Human Family Tree, Study Says

Rebuilt Million-Year-Old Skull Recasts Early Human Family Tree

New Patagonian Megaraptor, Joaquinraptor casali, Described With Crocodile Bone in Its Jaws

Sponge Biomarkers Found in Ediacaran Rocks Bolster Case for Earliest Animals

Reconstructed Million-Year-Old Chinese Skull Points to Earlier Human Lineage Split

New Megaraptor From Patagonia Found With Crocodile Bone in Its Jaws

AI Links Leopard Bite Marks to Homo Habilis, Recasting an Early Human as Prey

Tiny Montana Crocodyliform With Unusual Teeth Named Thikarisuchus in Study Proposing New Family

First Cretaceous Amber Fossils Found in South America Preserve 112-Million-Year-Old Insects

Study Confirms North Sea’s Silverpit Crater Was Formed by an Asteroid Impact

Storms Likely Doomed Baby Pterosaurs at Solnhofen, Study Finds

Ecuador Quarry Yields South America’s First Mesozoic Amber With Insects

Oldest, Most Complete Dome-Headed Dinosaur Unearthed in Mongolia

eLife Paper Revives Case for Homo Naledi Burials Deep in Rising Star Caves

First Direct Date of Dinosaur Eggshells Pins Chinese Clutch to 86 Million Years

Museum Fossil From Wales Named New Triassic Theropod, Newtonsaurus Cambrensis

Oldest Known Lepidosaur From 242 Million Years Ago Recasts Early Lizard Evolution