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Reconstruction of Jeholbaatar kielanae. Credit: XU Yong

New Cretaceous mammal fossil sheds light on evolution of middle ear

A 91-million-year-old fossil shark newly named Cretodus houghtonorum discovered in Kansas

Fossil dig leads to unexpected discovery of 91-million-year-old shark new to...

The pink arrow points to the predentary and the blue arrow points to the upper portion of the jaw, which has no teeth. Together, they may have been covered by a keratinous beak, and the predentary was most likely mobile Credit: IVPP

New finding on origin of avian predentary in Mesozoic birds

Mammoth bones are pictured in Tultepec, Mexico in this handout photograph released by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology (INAH)

Huge trove of mammoth skeletons found in Mexico

A fossilized mantle of a vampyropod, a relative to the vampire squid. The ink sacis the raised structure in the center, and muscles have a striated appearance. Credit: Rowan Martindale/The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences.

Exceptional fossils may need a breath of air to form

Peaty sedimentary archive from a palm swamp collected with a Russian corer. (Image:Encarni Montoya)

A new study shows the evolution and changes of the vegetation...

Opalized Ammonite

Research offers insight into how oldest fossils formed

Fossilised 20 centimetre long hand claw of theropod discovered at Eric the West site on Victoria’s Otway Coast. Credit: Stephen Poropat/Museums Victoria

Huge-clawed predatory dinosaur discovery in Victoria

Woolly mammoth illustration Mauricio Antón © 2008 Public Library of Science

Archaeologist finds evidence of extinction theory

Photograph of the traces analyzed: : Megalosauripus transjuranicus (A) y Jurabrontes transjuranicus (B). Credit: Matteo Belvedere et al.

Jurassic dinosaurs trotted between Africa and Europe

Ampyx priscus in linear formation (Moroccan Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale). Credit: Jean Vannier, Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon: Terre, Planètes, Environnement (CNRS / ENS de Lyon / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

Fossils show lining up is primal urge

Gigantic dinosaurs like the sauropod Diplodocus, which weighed over 15 tons and was longer than an 18-wheeler truck, would have had problems with potentially lethal overheating. Hot blood from the body core would have been pumped to the head, damaging the delicate brain. New research shows that in sauropods, evaporation of moisture in the nose and mouth would have cooled extensive networks of venous blood destined for the brain. Other large dinosaurs evolved different brain-cooling mechanisms, but all involving evaporative cooling of blood in different regions of the head. Credit: Life restoration by Michael Skrepnick. Courtesy of WitmerLab at Ohio University.

Huge dinosaurs evolved different cooling systems to combat heat stroke

A small, feathered theropod dinosaur, Saurornitholestes langstoni was long thought to be so closely related to Velociraptor mongoliensis that some researchers called it Velociraptor langstoni—until now. Credit: Jan Sovak.

Paleontologists discover complete Saurornitholestes langstoni specimen

The Sosnogorsk lagoon just before a deadly storm. Credit: Mikhail Shekhanov for the Ukhta Local Museum

The earliest well-preserved tetrapod may never have left the water

A new study led by Yale University confirms a long-held theory about the last great mass extinction event in history and how it affected Earth's oceans. The findings may also answer questions about how marine life eventually recovered. Credit: Michael Henehan & Pincelli Hull

Mystery solved: Ocean acidity in the last mass extinction

Siamraptor skull reconstruction. Credit: Chokchaloemwong et al., 2019

Meet Siamraptor suwati, a new species of giant predatory dinosaur from...

Ancient fossils reveal fresh clues about early life on land

Ancient fossils reveal fresh clues about early life on land

Fossils preserved in Dominican amber reveal a new family, genus and species of microinvertebrate from the mid-Tertiary period, a discovery that shows unique lineages of the tiny creatures were living 30 million years ago. Credit: Provided by George Poinar Jr.

Meet the ‘mold pigs’ a new group of invertebrates from 30...

Plotosaurus bennisoni is a mosasaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) North America. Restoration illustration from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.

Did mosasaurs do the breast stroke?

Pterosaur

New Australian pterosaur may have survived the longest

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