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Holotype fossil of Caihong juji, including line drawing of fossil skeleton.

‘Rainbow’ dinosaur had iridescent feathers like a hummingbird

Geology Page - January 16, 2018

Caudipteryx robot for testing passive flapping flight.

Running may have made dinosaurs’ wings flap before they evolved to fly

This mural was originally made for a recent Royal Ontario Museum exhibit about a fossil ankylosaur named Zuul crurivastator. That fossil is found within a couple of meters stratigraphically/temporally of the site described in this paper. The last author on the study, David Evans, is the dinosaur curator at the Royal Ontario Museum and was also involved in the description of Zuul and design of that exhibit. Credit: Danielle Dufault, Royal Ontario Museum.

Late cretaceous dinosaur-dominated ecosystem

Brachiosaur foot bones below a tail of a Camarasaurus.

Paleontologists discover largest dinosaur foot ever

New models predicting where to find fossils

lacewing larvae

Amber unveils evolution of ancient antlions

Geology Page - August 23, 2018

Fossil arthropod went on the hunt for its prey

Geology Page - August 24, 2014

A Photoshop-created image of how Kataigidodon venetus may have looked, illustrated by Ben Kligman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geosciences and Hannah R. Kligman. Credit: Virginia Tech

New species of ancient cynodont, 220 million years old, discovered

Geology Page - November 4, 2020

Robert Reisz examined fossils from the embryos of Lufengosaurus, an early sauropodomorph species that predates more recognizable sauropods. Credit: David Mazierski

New research examining dinosaur tooth fossils provides crucial insight into vertebrate...

Geology Page - May 17, 2020

Dakotaraptor ruled Hell Creek Formation as lethal predator

Geology Page - November 7, 2015

New data for old bones: How the famous Cleveland-Lloyd dinosaur bone...

Geology Page - June 6, 2017

Ice age extinction shaped Australian plant diversity

Geology Page - February 18, 2013

The first crocodile ancestors

Geology Page - August 3, 2016

Exceptionally preserved Jurassic sea life found in new fossil site

Geology Page - January 25, 2017

Ancestor of sea reptile super-predators found in Germany

Geology Page - September 15, 2017

Chemical analysis demonstrates communal nesting in dinosaurs

Geology Page - October 29, 2016

Many species now going extinct may vanish without a fossil trace

Geology Page - March 22, 2016

Palaeoartist reconstruction of a 16 m adult Megalodon. Credit: Reconstruction by Oliver E. Demuth

True size of prehistoric mega-shark finally revealed

Geology Page - September 9, 2020

New finds of a living fossil

Geology Page - October 3, 2015

Meet Pentecopterus, a new predator from the prehistoric seas

Geology Page - September 1, 2015

New Dinosaur Fossil Discovered in China

Geology Page - May 4, 2013

An artist's impression of Leptostomia begaaensis Credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth

Beak bone reveals pterosaur like no other

Geology Page - October 17, 2020

Scientists from The Australian National University have discovered the have discovered that 558 million-year-old Dickinsonia fossils do not reveal all of the features of the earliest known animals, which potentially had mouths and guts.

Mystery shrouding oldest animal fossils solved

Geology Page - March 26, 2019

A penis in amber

Geology Page - February 3, 2016

For her research Witkowski collected seawater with fresh, modern algae to test potential indicators of the past.

Fossil algae reveal 500 million years of climate change

Geology Page - December 1, 2018

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