palaeontology

Field photograph of the excavated ichthyosaur skeleton in the Katrol Formation near Lodai village. Caption and source: PLOS

Remarkably Complete 150 Million Year Old Marine Reptile Fossil Found in Gujarat

Lakshmi Supriya 29/10/2017

This is the oldest and most complete fossil of...

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Evidence of Paleolithic Ornaments in Decorated Snail Shells in Iraq

Chris Hunt 25/06/2017

An excavation at Shanidar Cave in Iraq has led...

dinosaur fossils

We Might Have to Completely Redraw the Dinosaur Family Tree

Michael J. Benton 23/03/2017

A new fossil study challenges 130 years of thinking...

Feathered Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Chunk of Amber

Will Dunham 09/12/2016

Scientists suspect the tail belonged to a type of...

Paleontologist Sebastian Apesteguia points to a dinosaur's footprint in Chulku Mayu, in the syncline of Maragua, some 60 km of Sucre, Bolivia, July 21, 2016. Reuters/Files

Meter-Wide Dinosaur Print Found in Bolivia

Reuters 27/07/2016

One of the largest ever dinosaur footprints has been...

Two tiny fossil wings preserved complete with feathers in the amber deposits of northeast Myanmar. Credit: Royal Saskatchewan Museum/RC McKellar, Author provided

Tiny Wings Trapped in Amber 99 Million Years Ago Reveal New Secrets of Earliest Birds

Michael Benton 29/06/2016

Birds today are one of the most successful groups...

A group of lemurs at Colchester Zoo, England. Credit: jans canon/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Lemurs Lost and Found: New Species Discovered but the Primates Face Extinction

Vrushal Pendharkar 28/04/2016

Each new species contributes another piece to the puzzle...