Paleontologists

Fri, 2019-11-29

Originating from a time before dinosaurs walked the earth, the earliest shark scales date back about 425 million years, and the earliest shark teeth are from the...

Sat, 2019-11-30

Majungasaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 70 million years ago (...

Sat, 2019-11-30

It isn’t every day that scientists dig up a dinosaur jaw—or unearth the remains of fossilized insects. So paleontologists couldn’t believe their luck when, in 2010, they found the 75-million-year-old jawbone of a duck-billed hadrosaur in Dinosaur Provincial Park...

Sat, 2019-11-30

Paleontologists in China have unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of a previously unknown Cretaceous mammal species with well-preserved middle ear bones....

Thu, 2019-11-28

This exceptionally well-preserved crinoid, Delgadocrinus oportovinum, was found on October 11, 1905, by Nery Delgado during his work mapping the geology...

Wed, 2019-11-27

An international team of paleontologists has announced the discovery of an ancient interaction preserved in a 16-million-year-old (Miocene Epoch) piece of amber from the Dominican...

Wed, 2019-11-27

Scientists have published their findings on the new species - a very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, in Cretaceous Research, a journal issued by the publisher Elsevier, and named it Xunmenglong yingliangis.

Tue, 2019-11-26

A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has unearthed a well-preserved Styracosaurus skull--and its facial...

Mon, 2019-11-25

Four years and a whole lot of chiseling later, an international research team has published a full scientific analysis of the skull. Even by the spikey standards of...

Fri, 2019-11-22

An analysis of the first three-dimensionally preserved skulls and skeletons of the extinct legged snake Najash rionegrina shows that nearly 100 million years ago (...

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