Oligocene-Period Fossils Provide Evidence of Pollination Interaction between Flowers and Bumblebees
Paleontologists have screened 24-million-year-old fossil flowers and bees from the Late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany, and identified a…
Paleontologists Discover New Species of Iguanodontian Dinosaur
A team of paleontologists from Portugal, Italy, the United States and Belgium has added another species of herbivorous…
310-Million-Year-Old Ray-Finned Fish Had Tongue-Bite Apparatus
Platysomus parvulus, a species of ray-finned fish that lived 310 million years ago, had a unique way of…
Mastodons were Far More Genetically Diverse than Previously Known, Ancient DNA Shows
Ancient DNA has been useful in reconciling deep evolutionary relationships and responses to ecological changes in elephants and…
New Study Confirms Partial Hemoglobin Preservation in Dinosaur Remains
Using a technique called Resonance Raman spectroscopy, paleontologists have detected hemoglobin remnants in bone extracts from two dinosaur…
New Species of Extinct Octodontoid Rodent Discovered from Amazonian Fossil
Paleontologists have identified a new species of rodent in Acarechimys, an extinct genus with a widespread South American…
Early Cretaceous Fossil in Swiss Museum Found to Be New Species of Marine Turtle
Paleontologists have described a new species of the extinct turtle genus Craspedochelys based on a remarkable fossil shell…
New Research Reveals Secrets of Burgess Shale Trilobites
Arthropod appendages are specialized for diverse roles including feeding, walking, and mating. Fossils from the Cambrian period (539…
Scientists amazingly uncover a 520 million-year-old fossil with its brain and guts intact: ‘Almost perfect preservation’
Fossils usually leave us with bones turned to stone, the hard remains of creatures long gone. But every…
New Plant-Eating Dinosaur Species Unveiled
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of early eusauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic…
Paleontologist Discovers First Known Silurian Horseshoe Crab
Horseshoe crabs are an ancient lineage with an evolutionary history stretching back 450 million years (Ordovician period) and…
70-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Crocodile-Like Apex Predator Unearthed in Argentina
Paleontologists have unearthed a beautifully preserved skull and jaws as well as part of the postcranial skeleton of…