Category: Paleontology

Two newly discovered fossils are helping scientists wrap their heads around the anatomy of the largest arthropod of all time — a millipede that grew longer than a king-sized bed and lived between 346 million and 290 million years…

Body size estimates of some of Earth’s larger-than-life species may have been just that: a little bit too large for real life.  

Take Dunkleosteus, an armored fish with a powerful bite force that lived around 360 million years ago…

Newswise — The discovery of new cynodont fossils from southern Brazil by a team of palaeontologists from the University of Bristol, alongside colleagues from Argentina and Brazil, has led to a significant…

It wasn’t an ancient boomerang. It was, in fact, a fish — albeit unlike any known today. Beyond that, nobody’s quite sure what to make of Pegasus volans.

The fish’s ribbonlike body, known from two fossils from a…

Newswise — At the end of the Paleocene and beginning of the Eocene epochs, between 59 to 51 million years ago, Earth experienced dramatic warming periods, both gradual periods stretching millions of years and sudden…

Earth’s most famous killer asteroid came from the outer reaches of the solar system, researchers report in the Aug. 16 Science.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the sea just off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula,…

Newswise — The most complete dinosaur discovered in this country in the last 100 years, with a pubic hip bone the size of a ‘dinner plate’, has been described in a new paper published today. 

The specimen,…

Newswise — The age of dinosaurs wasn’t conducted solely above ground. A newly discovered ancestor of Thescelosaurus shows evidence that these animals spent at least part of their time in underground burrows. The…