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Remnants of feather sheaths on the wings of the fossil bird Archaeopteryx, shows the earliest evidence of a complex moulting strategy. The white arrows indicate the feather sheaths. Scale bar is 1 cm. Credit: Kaye et al. 2020.

Archaeopteryx fossil provides insights into the origins of flight

Deep-water ocean circulation, marine biodiversity and climate change

Rainforest collapse 307 million years ago impacted the evolution of early...

When carbon emissions pass a critical threshold, it can trigger a spike-like reflex in the carbon cycle, in the form of severe ocean acidification that lasts for 10,000 years, according to a new MIT study.

Breaching a ‘carbon threshold’ could lead to mass extinction

Spiny, armored slug reveals ancestry of molluscs

Paleontologists describe a possible dinosaur nest and young ‘babysitter’

Scientists make new discovery about bird evolution

From left to right: Haplocheirus, Xiyunykus, Bannykus, and Shuvuuia. Note the lengthening of the jaws, reduction of the teeth, and changes in the hand and arm.

Two new Chinese dinosaurs discovered

Microbes in a sub-seafloor aquifer feast on carbon in fluids flowing through the permeable rock.

Deep water aquifer acts like natural bio-reactor, allowing microbes to consume...

New primate species at root of tree of extant hominoids

Antibiotic-resistant microbes date back to 450 million years ago, well before...

Mukawaryu

Japan’s largest complete dinosaur skeleton comes to life

Paleontologist finds that ligaments in some dinosaurs’ necks helped them graze...

NHMUK PV R 9372, Palaeosauropus sp., (a) colour photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks, (b) 3D digital render of the plaster cast of the sandstone slab and tracks and (c) black and white photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks. In (b), left manus and pes prints are denoted a and b respectively, the right pes prints c and e, with print d being the right manus. The indented area left of print e is identified as damage to the specimen rather than a footprint impression.

Oldest known record of amphibian tracks in the UK

Two skulls of the new genus Haringtonhippus from Nevada (upper) and Texas (lower).

New Genus of Extinct Horses in North America

Ancient DNA traces extinct Caribbean ‘Island Murderer’ back to the dawn...

Archaeocyatha

A New Species of Cretaceous Acanthomorph from Canada

Joseph Peterson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, demonstrates how a T. rex takes a bite.

Teenage T. rex was already chomping on prey

Illustration shows a cross section of the prehistoric iguana burrow, and how the surrounding landscape may have looked during the Late Pleistocene Epoch. Credit: Anthony Martin.

First-known fossil iguana burrow found in the Bahamas

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