125-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Relative Reveals Its True Colors
Exceptionally preserved skin of Montsecosuchus depereti, an extinct crocodylomorph no larger than a house cat that prowled the…
New Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in Romania
An international team of paleontologists from Romania, Hungary and Italy has identified a new genus and species of…
New Dinosaur Species from Argentina May Have Specialized in Catching Fish
Paleontologists in Argentina have identified a previously unknown species of unenlagiid dinosaur that stalked freshwater wetlands during the…
Cretaceous Bird from China Had Pair of Tail Feathers Twice as Long as Its Body
Named Plumadraco bankoorum, the newly-described species of enantiornithine bird lived in what is now northeastern China during the…
Rare Ostrich-Like Dinosaur Fossil Found on Canadian Island
Paleontologists in Canada say they have recovered a dinosaur tail vertebra from 75- to 80-million-year-old marine rocks on…
83-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Lizard Fossil Unearthed in France
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of pan-shinisaur lizard from a partial upper jaw discovered in…
‘T. rex’ Mosasaur Ruled the Seas 80 Million Years Ago
Paleontologists have described a gigantic new species of mosasaur — stretching up to 13.2 m (43 feet) long…
Giant Tyrannosaur Fossil Found in New Mexico
A large tyrannosaurid dinosaur may have stalked the floodplains of what is now New Mexico nearly 74 million…
Dinosaurs May Have Fed Their Young a Special Diet, Study Suggests
An analysis of wear on the fossilized teeth of the hadrosaurian dinosaur Maiasaura peeblesorum indicates their juveniles may…
Ancient Bite Marks Suggest Tyrannosaurs Were Not Just Hunters
New research led by Aarhus University paleontologists overturns the image of tyrannosaurs as pure apex predators. An analysis…
Study: Butterflies and Moths Have Reused Same Genetic Toolkit for 120 Million Years
A landmark study of several butterfly lineages and a day-flying moth in South America shows that convergent evolution…
Omnivorous, Rodent-Like Mammal Lived in Dinosaurs’ Shadow on Pacific Coast
Paleontologists have descibed a new species of the multituberculate mammal genus Cimolodon based on a fossil found in…