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A dinosaur-like reptile leaves muddy footprints along the shoreline of a lake during a rainstorm some 234 million years ago in northwestern Argentina. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez/NHMU

Insights into climate change during origin of dinosaurs

Decomposition of dinosaurian remains inferred by invertebrate traces on vertebrate bone reveal new insights into Late Jurassic ecology, decay, and climate in western Colorado Credit: Brian Engh

New Mygatt-Moore quarry research leads to prehistoric climate finds

Arizona Rock Offers Clues to the Chaotic Earth of 200 Million Years Ago

Arizona Rock Offers Clues to the Chaotic Earth of 200 Million...

Life restoration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, shown to scale with human hands. The fossils of Kongonaphon were found in Triassic (~237 million years ago) rocks in southwestern Madagascar and demonstrate the existence of remarkably small animals along the dinosaurian stem. Art by Frank Ippolito / © American Museum of Natural History

A tiny ancient relative of dinosaurs and pterosaurs discovered

The fossilized remains of this Xiphactinus - similar to the one found in Argentina - was discovered in the US state of Kansas and sold at auction in 2010

Fossil of giant 70m year-old fish found in Argentina

An artist's interpretation of Dilophosaurus based on the latest research. Credit: Brian Engh / The Saint George Dinosaur Discovery Site.

Famous ‘Jurassic Park’ dinosaur is less lizard, more bird

This illustration shows a life restoration of a pod of Ankylorhiza tiedemani hunting. Credit: Robert W Boessenecker

15-foot-long skeleton of extinct dolphin suggests parallel evolution among whales

Artist's impression of the giant dormouse (left) and its nearest living relative the garden dormouse (right). Credit: James Sadler, University of York

Researcher reconstructs skull of two million year-old giant dormouse

Diverse structural-colored insects in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. Credit: NIGPAS

Amber fossils unlock true color of 99-million-year-old insects

An individual of Ankylosaurus magniventris, a large armoured dinosaur species, witnesses the impact of an asteroid, falling on the Yucatán peninsula 66 million years ago. Not even its large size and thick armour sheltered its kind from the violence of this cosmic disaster. Credit: Fabio Manucci

Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs

Hauffiopteryx altera. Credit: McGill University

New species of Ichthyosaur discovered in museum collection

An egg of Himeoolithus murakamii (left), outlined egg with intact eggshell remains (black area) (middle), and reconstruction of Himeoolithus murakamii and their probable parent dinosaur (right).

Tiny Japanese dinosaur eggs help unscramble Cretaceous ecosystem

In a new report, paleontologists Lauren Sallan and Jack Stack re-examine the “enigmatic and strange” prehistoric fish Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri.

300-million-year-old fish resembles a sturgeon but took a different evolutionary path

Pictured left is an exceptionally preserved male pollen cone of Araucaria huncoensis showing characteristic cylindrical shape and many long, pointed bracts at the base. Pictured right is a leafy branch fossil of Araucaria huncoensis, showing rare preservation of a branching point connecting two leafy branch segments and a connected growth point on the right segment. The branches are usually shed from the tree as individual segments.

New Argentine fossils uncover history of celebrated conifer group

Illustration of Borealopelta markmitchelli dinosaur by Julius Csotonyi. Credit: © Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Scientists discover what an armored dinosaur ate for its last meal

What the ankylosaur Bissektipelta archibaldi might look like. Credit: the authors of the paper.

Palaeontologists create most detailed virtual 3-D-model of endocranial cast and blood...

The fossilized jaw of an Overoraptor chimentoi, a new species of dinosaur discovered in Argentine Patagonia

Argentine paleontologists discover small carnivorous dinosaur

Ichthyosaur

Nevada home to 246M-year-old fossil of pregnant ichthyosaur

UT Austin scientists found that the fossil millipede Kampecaris obanensis was 425 million years old. Credit: British Geological Survey

World’s oldest bug is fossil millipede from Scotland

The attached image shows Wightia declivirostris flying over an oxbow lake in the valley of the ancient Wessex River that flowed from Devon to the Isle of Wight. Credit: Megan Jacobs

Chinese pterodactyl wings its way to the United Kingdom

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