Tag : Palaeontology press releases

New analysis of the fossil record shows that placental mammals, the group that today includes nearly 5000 species including humans, became more varied in anatomy

Found with associated shell fragments, Saurolophus dino likely from nest, in earliest stages of development.

An international team of researchers, together with participation from the University of Bonn, has investigated a stunning fossil finding from the Cretaceous period.

Were dinosaurs really fast, aggressive hunters like the ones depicted in the movie "Jurassic World"? Or did they have lower metabolic rates that made them

A 48 million year-old horse-like equoid fetus has been discovered at the Messel pit near Frankfurt, Germany according to a study published October 7, 2015

The identification of a new species belonging to the marine mammal group Desmostylia has intensified the rare animal's brief mysterious journey through prehistoric time, finds

Birds have an enormously long evolutionary history: The earliest of them, the famed Archaeopteryx, lived 150 million years ago in what is today southern Germany.

A team of University of Michigan paleontologists were able to recover about 20 percent of the animal's bones, including the skull and two tusks, numerous

A new analysis of the fossil record by paleontologists at the University of Connecticut and the Smithsonian Institute demonstrates that the number of animal species

The coelacanth fish, found today in the Indian Ocean, is often called a ‘living fossil’ because its last ancestors existed about 70 million years ago

Decades of research on Montana's state fossil -- the "good mother lizard" Maiasaurapeeblesorum - has resulted in the most detailed life history of any dinosaur

By using fossil data, researchers have found that the structure of ecological communities leading up to the Permian-Triassic Extinction, one of the largest drivers of

Earth’s early burrowers were slow to discover the bottom of the ocean as a good place to kick up dirt.

Scientists from Virginia Tech and the University of Bristol have revealed how pigment can be detected in mammal fossils, a discovery that may end the

How good is the fossil record? And does it paint an accurate picture of the history of life? Those are the long-standing questions that geobiologist

When did the enamel that covers our teeth evolve? And where in the body did this tissue first appear?

Fluctuating sea levels and global cooling caused a significant decline in the number of crocodylian species over millions of years, according to new research.

As if life wasn't hard enough during the last Ice Age, research led by the University of Queensland has found Australia's first human inhabitants had

Researchers working with specimens at the University of Alaska Museum of the North have described a new species of hadrosaur, a type of duck-billed dinosaur