Ichthyosaurs Had Surprisingly Dense Ribs, New Study Finds
Long before whales ruled the oceans, dolphin-shaped marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs patrolled the same waters. New research from…
Archaeopteryx Took Off with Series of Hops, Not One Big Leap: Study
Archaeopteryx — the first ever bird to inhabit the Earth — may have hopped its way into the…
Germany’s Famous Fossil Beds Yield New Species of Jurassic Ichthyosaur
For more than a century, paleontologists studying the Late Jurassic seas that once covered southern Germany believed only…
Fossil Find in China Reveals Dinosaur Family Never Before Seen in East Asia
Paleontologists working in southern China have identified a new species of sauropod dinosaur that appears to belong to…
Small Sauropod Dinosaur from Jurassic Period Discovered in India
Paleontologists in India have unearthed a partial skeleton of a diminutive, previously unknown neosauropod dinosaur from the Middle…
Chinese fossil find shows birds shed their dinosaur tails step by step
A fossil found in China suggests modern birds shed the long, bony tails of their dinosaur ancestors through…
New Jurassic Fossil Reveals How Birds Lost Their Dinosaur Tails
Paleontologists in China have described a small, previously unknown Jurassic bird whose short tail offers new evidence for…
Scientists Solve 320-Million-Year Mystery of Reptile Skin Armor
While skin bone plates are well studied in crocodylians (shown here in a gharial, in purple), their presence…
New Species of Giant Long-Necked Dinosaur Identified in Argentina
Fossils unearthed on a remote Argentine ranch belong to a new genus and species of macronarian sauropod dinosaur,…
Paleontologists Reconstruct Ecology of Archaeopteryx
A comprehensive new review by Field Museum of Natural History paleontologists draws together the latest fossil evidence —…
Early Sauropodomorph Dinosaur Unearthed in China
A new genus and species of massopodan sauropodomorph that lived during the Early Jurassic epoch has been identified…
Scientists from Spain, China discover Jurassic lizard tracks in Europe
BEIJING — A team of international scientists from China and Spain has identified two well-preserved fossilized lizard trackways…