Paleontology

Palaeontologists have discovered a new fossil species called Cloudina carinata, a small fossil with a tubular appearance and one of the first animals that developed an external skeleton between 550…

Scientists have identified a hip bone found at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia that belonged to an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex. The discovery is the first evidence that tyrannosaur dinosaurs…

Paleontologists have discovered a new bird fossil in northeast China that provides more evidence for a specialized group of small birds that diversified during the Early Cretaceous between about 130…

Utah's red rocks have yielded a rare skeleton of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur, Seitaad ruessi, that lived 185 million years ago and may have been buried alive by a collapsing sand dune.…

A newly constructed climate record from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary explains how the dinosaurs rose to prominence as the Triassic Period ended, says an international team of geologists and…

Paleontologists have discovered a new raptor species in Inner Mongolia.  The exceptionally well preserved dinosaur, named Linheraptor exquisitus, is the first near complete skeleton of its kind…

Palaeontologists have discovered evidence of how an extinct shark attacked its prey, reconstructing a killing that took place 4 million years ago. Such fossil evidence of behavior is incredibly rare…

A new genus and species of carnivorous amphibian from western Pennsylvania, Fedexia striegeli, provides the earliest widespread evidence of terrestrial Vertebrates, say researchers from Carnegie…

They Might Be Giants serve up another slice of power pop for kids with "I am a Paleontologist". One of the better videos in their science series.

An asteroid colliding with Earth was responsible for the Cretaceous–Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, according to a new review published…