Category: Paleontology

One pterosaur species gave itself quite the makeover as it grew older and larger.

Scientists have spent more than a century wondering if a large and anatomically quirky flying reptile fossil represented a distinct species from its…

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 metres) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers led by the Martin Luther…

The demise of most of Australia’s kangaroo species by 40,000 years ago may have had less to do with climate-caused dietary pressures and more to do with human hunters.

Dental analyses of ancient kangaroos reveal they weren’t such…

Newswise — MADISON — How and when did dinosaurs first emerge and spread across the planet more than 200 million years ago? That question has for decades been a source of debate among…

BYLINE: Laura Thomas

Newswise — A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed.

The tiny skeleton, unearthed…

One of the most extraordinary fossil beds of Cretaceous creatures in the world formed about 125 million years ago, in what’s now northeastern China.

Researchers have thought that the diverse members of this ancient community were…

Newswise — CLEVELAND—As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet’s deep past may provide vital insights into what may lie ahead.

Knowledge of the natural world millions of years ago is…

Tadpoles have been wriggling in the world’s ponds for at least 161 million years.

A newly detailed fossil finding pushes the record for earliest known tadpoles back an additional 30 million years, researchers report October 30 in…