Paleontology

The upper Miocene to lower Pliocene fossil from Beaumaris in Victoria, south-eastern Australia, completely rewrites…

With a 11-12-m wingspan (37-40 feet), Quetzalcoatlus is the largest flying organism ever known and…

A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an almost complete skeleton…

Using correlative neutron and X-ray tomography, paleontologists have examined an exceptionally preserved specimen of Sigaloceras…

Non-avian dinosaurs may have had bright color on their skin, scales and beaks in a…

About 66 million years ago, a 10-km-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of…

Some species of theropods (two-legged dinosaurs) could reach speeds of 45 kmh (28 mph), according…

The whole-body endothermy seen in modern birds and mammals is long held to have evolved…

Paleontologists have used high-resolution micro-CT and synchrotron tomography to scan two well-preserved 3D specimens of…

The bony tongue of the newly-identified enantiornithine bird species, Brevirostruavis macrohyoideus, was nearly as long…

Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems globally. However, whereas a pole-to-pole geographic distribution characterized ornithischian and…

Extreme warming at the end of the Permian period induced profound changes in marine biogeochemical…

A new genus and species of dromaeosaurid dinosaur has been discovered by a team of…

Arthropleura, an enormous myriapod that lived some 326 million years ago (Carboniferous period), is estimated…

The fossilized dinosaur egg from the Hekou Formation, Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, southern China, is elongate…

With a skull size of 2 m (6.6 feet) and an estimated body size of…