Mastodons were Far More Genetically Diverse than Previously Known, Ancient DNA Shows
Ancient DNA has been useful in reconciling deep evolutionary relationships and responses to ecological changes in elephants and…
Paleontologist Discovers First Known Silurian Horseshoe Crab
Horseshoe crabs are an ancient lineage with an evolutionary history stretching back 450 million years (Ordovician period) and…
Fossil teeth in Ethiopia reveal new Australopithecus species that lived alongside early Homo ancestors
Researchers in northeastern Ethiopia have made a thrilling discovery of fossilized teeth that may belong to a new…
New Fossils from Tanzania and Zambia Shed Light on End-Permian Mass Extinction
Paleontologists have identified the myriad of animals — saber-toothed predators, burrowing foragers and a large, salamander-like creature —…
New Bird-Like Dinosaur from Mongolia Had Extremely Robust Hands
Paleontologists have identified a new species of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from an almost complete and articulated skeleton found in…
Scientists just discovered a mysterious unknown species hidden in the world’s longest cave
Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown species of extinct shark deep within the labyrinth of Mammoth Cave in…
Paleontologists Discover First Evidence of Multispecies Dinosaur Herding
Paleontologists say they have discovered the 76-million-year-old footprints of a ceratopsian dinosaur-dominated herd in Dinosaur Provincial Park in…
95-Million-Year-Old Plant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina
Paleontologists in Patagonia, Argentina, have unearthed a portion of a postcranial skeleton that belonged to a previously unknown…
World’s only complete baby dinosaur skeleton to hit auction block
Sotheby’s is auctioning the only known juvenile specimen of a Ceratosaurus nasicornis dinosaur for an estimated $4-6 million.…