Exploring Prehistoric Life
Paleontologists in China have uncovered exceptionally preserved fossils of a previously unknown genus and species of extinct arthropod, Kylinxia zhangi, that provides important insights into the phylogenetic relationships among early arthropods...
Paleontologists have uncovered a previously unknown species of cynodont that lived during the Triassic period in what is now Arizona, the United States....
In 2017, while browsing the fossil collections of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, University of Texas at Austin graduate student Simon Scarpetta came across a small lizard skull, just under an inch long.
Filikomys primaevus, a new genus and species of multituberculate mammal that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, has been identified from...
New research reports on discovery of 5-million-year-old honey badger-like animal from West Coast of South Africa.
In a new study published this week in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom combined fossil records with a new model of flight to measure flight...
Paleontologists have found two nearly complete skeletons from a new genus and species of nothosauroid marine reptile that lived during the Middle Triassic in what is now...
Paleontologists have described new fossils of pelagornithid birds from the middle Eocene Submeseta Formation on Seymour Island, Antarctica.
Large tidal ranges from the Late Silurian to the Late Devonian period (420 to 380 million years ago) could have fostered both the...
A new genus and species of elasmosaurid plesiosaur has been identified by an international team of paleontologists led by Dr....