Paleontology

The world’s oldest known fossil primate skeleton, unearthed from an ancient lake bed in central China’s Hubei Province, near the course of the modern Yangtze River, represents a previously unknown…

Do you know, my original title for this was "The Early Bird Gets the PR". I hastily changed it before posting because it was the most cynical title of I'd ever read, of anything, ever. But, it has…

Species of gigantic animals that once roamed Australia were long gone by the time people arrived, a major review of the available evidence has concluded. The research challenges the claim that humans…

There a lot of rules governing how you name new species. But that doesn't mean that fun things can't still get through.This is Kootenichela deppi, a new 540 million year old arthropod from a deposit…

Why did saber-toothed cats, hyenas, an extinct 'bear-dog', ancestors of the red panda and several other carnivores die under unusual circumstances in a Spanish cave near Madrid approximately 10…

A tiny fossil, the nearly complete skeleton of a bird that would have fit in the palm of your hand and weighed less than an ounce, offers clues to the precursors of swift and hummingbird wings.…

Evolution is misunderstood by millions.  And, it has to be said, a lot of the time, this problem isn't helped by the way things are reported on the TV or in the news.These are the 5 most…

An unusual fossil of Euphanerops, a fossil jawless fish that swam in the seas around 370 million years ago, has fins behind its anus - a pair of them.  The find makes the fish one of the first…

In a first, a whale skeleton has been found on the ocean floor near Antarctica, almost a mile below the surface in an undersea crater. With it were at least nine new species of deep-sea organisms…

A study has documented detailed records of dinosaur egg fossils in the Coll de Nargó archaeological site in Lleida, Spain and found there are four. Up until now, only one type of dinosaur egg had…