Jurassic Crocodile Relative from Morocco Had Needle-Thin Teeth
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of teleosaurid thalattosuchian based on two specimens found in eastern…
Ancient Himalayan-scale Mountains in Antarctica May Have Helped Gondwana Set Off the Explosion of Animal Life
Credit: Unsplash. Long before Antarctica froze over, parts of the continent may have risen into mountains on the…
Scientists find evidence for an ancient supercontinent that covered 80 percent of Earth’s surface
A new global isotopic map has revealed vast fragments of ancient Gondwanan crust buried beneath younger mountain belts…
Fossil Evidence Pushes Back Origin of Live Birth by 90 Million Years
Paleontologists studying a 236-million-year-old cynodont fossil from Argentina say they have found the earliest evidence yet of viviparity…
Did Early Snakes Burrow, Swim or Crawl? 80‑Million‑Year‑Old Fossil Suggests: All Three
Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest…
83-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Timeline of Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Discovery
A small fossil collected on an Antarctic island more than four decades ago is a tail vertebra of…
New Marsupial Lineage Emerges from Australian Fossils
Paleontologists have described a new genus and three new species of small, insect-eating marsupials from the Early Miocene…
Continent-scale basin system found beneath East Antarctica’s ice sheet
A newly identified geological structure hidden beneath East Antarctica may help explain how part of the continent formed,…
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,…
Small Titanosaur Species from Morocco Reveals Surprising South American Ties
A new genus and species of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur related to South American forms has been described by…
Big-Nosed Herbivorous Dinosaur May Have Been Picky Eater
New research shows that the large-bodied ornithopod dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus langdoni from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia was no ordinary…
A Twisted Fossil Jaw Reveals a Strange 275-Million-Year-Old Animal
Artist’s reconstruction of Tanyka amnicola. Credit: Vitor Silva Paleontologists surveying a dry riverbed in northeastern Brazil repeatedly encountered…