Category: Paleontology

The newly-identified species fills a temporal gap between South American herrerasaurid dinosaurs and their younger relatives from North America.

Cicadidae is one of the most species-rich insect families today. However, compared to the number of living species, fossil records of Cicadidae are extremely limited. The newly-discovered species, Eoplatypleura messelensis, not only represents…

Paleontologists have found the fossils of three new fish species — including the earliest known salmonid fish, Sivulliusalmo alaskensis — at the Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska, the United States.

Initially interpreted as a primitive Cambrian mollusk, Shishania aculeata — a 500-million-year-old spine-covered fossil found in China’s Yunnan province — is in fact a distant relative of sponge-like creatures known as chancelloriids,…

The genus Tharsis is among the most common fish in the Eichstätt and Solnhofen Basins of the Solnhofen Archipelago, with around 26% of the entire fish fauna²⁰. In these two localities, juvenile and subadult specimens of Tharsis are found…

The genus Tyrannosaurus most likely arose in North America, although its direct ancestors migrated over from Asia more than 70 million years ago, according to a new study led by University College London paleontologists.

This makes sense to us, but it also makes sense in nature: New fossil evidence from Virginia Tech geoscientists revealed that different species of predatory fish independently…