Paleontologists

Wed, 2021-09-15

Using recovered DNA to “genetically resurrect” an extinct species — the central idea behind the Jurassic Park films — may be moving closer to reality with the creation this week of a new company that aims to bring back woolly mammoths thousands of years...

Wed, 2021-09-15

About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what is now...

Tue, 2021-09-14

Paleontologists have described a new species of kiwi that lived during the mid-Pleistocene Epoch on the North Island of New Zealand....

Sat, 2021-09-11

Paleontologists have described in detail for the first time the scaly skin of Carnotaurus sastrei, an abelisaurid theropod that lived in South...

Thu, 2021-09-09

Paleontologists have described the largest Cambrian hurdiid radiodont known so far, named Titanokorys gainesi...

Tue, 2021-09-07

Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of large teratornithid birds at four localities in central Argentina.

Wed, 2021-09-01

Everyone has heard of dinosaurs, and for most, the creatures are as fascinating as they are terrifying. But while scientists continue to uncover truths about these ancient creatures, what we know about their lives and behavior changes how we perceive them....

Wed, 2021-09-01

An incomplete fossil record hampers reconstructing the early evolution of caimans (subfamily Caimaninae). In new research, paleontologists from Germany and the United States have described two previously unpublished, 52-million-year-old fossils of a key caiman...

Tue, 2021-08-31

A new species of the mosasaur genus Ectenosaurus has been identified from the fossilized remains found in western Kansas, the United States.

Sat, 2021-08-28

Chase Doran Brownstein from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and the Stamford Museum and Nature Center has described two new dinosaurs — a herbivorous hadrosaur and a...

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