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Similar to present-day diurnal birds of prey (right), the talons on the hind toe and the second toe of Primoptynx poliotauros (left) are noticeably larger than the talons on the third and fourth toe. In modern owls (center) all four talons are roughly the same size.

A 55-Million-Year-Old Owl Skeleton

Fungus gnat trapped in a piece of defaunation resin from Madagascar. Credit: Enrique Peñalver

After 1760 It Is Called Resin

Pterosaurs with these types of beaks are better known at the time period from North Africa, so it would be reasonable to assume a likeness to the North African Alanqa. Credit: Attributed to Davide Bonadonna

Fossil shark turns into mystery pterosaur

Titanosaurs were common at the time of the asteroid hit at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago. (Credit: AlienCat)

New analysis refutes claim that dinosaurs were in decline before asteroid...

The extinct Kiritimati Sandpiper, Prosobonia cancellata - a close cousin of the newly discovered Prosobonia sauli. Credit: George Edward Lodge, 1907

Henderson island fossils reveal new Polynesian sandpiper species

USF geosciences professor Bogdan Onac is pictured with ice deposit in New Mexico. Credit: University of South Florida

Geoscientists discover Ancestral Puebloans survived from ice melt in New Mexico...

The figure shows a portion of the Mafia mega-slide imaged by a time-slice extracted from 3-D seismic reflection data (coherence attribute). Credit: Data courtesy of Royal Dutch Shell

Evidence from one of Earth’s biggest underwater landslides ever sheds light...

The team has developed a simulation of the Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1991. The blue shading represents sulfur dioxide, the white shading represents sulfate aerosols and the orange area represents volcanic ash. Credit: KAUST

Volcanic eruptions have more effect in summer

The journey of Hawaii's pancake from its creation at the mantle plume to where it slipped under the Pacific plate and sunk deep into the Earth's mantle. Credit: Michigan State University

Researchers discover ‘missing’ piece of Hawaii’s formation

End Triassic vs Anthropocene

New placement for one of Earth’s largest mass extinction events

International Chronostratigraphic Chart (v2020/03)

International Chronostratigraphic Chart (v2020/03)

Hormuz Island, Iran

Hormuz Island, Iran

Fossil specimen of Kylinxia, holotype. Credit: ZENG Han

A 520-million-year-old, five-eyed fossil reveals arthropod origin

Fragments of the Oued Awlitis 001 meteorites acquired by the Ludovic-Ferrière. Credit: University of Manchester

Donwilhelmsite : New mineral from the moon could explain what happens...

Rhamphohynchus - one of 75 pterosaur species studied by the researchers Credit: Mark Witton

Giant lizards learnt to fly over millions of years

Planet Earth. and You!

Geologist helps confirm date of earliest land plants on Earth

An illustration of Brevicaudosaurus. Credit: Tyler Stone BA '19, art and cinema; see his website tylerstoneart.wordpress.com

Ancient marine predator had a built-in float

Buriolestes schultzi brain. Credit: Márcio L. Castro

Researchers reconstruct the first complete brain of one of the oldest...

CT scan of coprolite specimen, BRSMG Cf15546, in different views, showing tuberculated bone (blue) from a fish skull, and two vertebrae from the tail of the marine reptile Pachystropheus, in yellow and green. Credit: Marie Cueille, and Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol

Fossil poop shows fishy lunches from 200 million years ago

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

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