Antrozous pallidus from the U.S. Credit: Elizabeth Clare

Bat genomes and fossils point to a European origin 65 million...

Queasy plesiosaurs swam to shore to vomit, Jurassic fossils reveal

Queasy plesiosaurs swam to shore to vomit, Jurassic fossils reveal

Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a group of Cardiatherium, a genus of extinct, direct relatives of modern capybaras, pictured in the late Miocene coastal wetlands and forestry canopy of the Atacama Region of northern Chile. Freshwater crocodiles float in the river, and seals can be seen basking on rocks while seabirds soar above the shoreline. Credit: MauriPaleoenvironmental reconstruction of a group of Cardiatherium, a genus of extinct, direct relatives of modern capybaras, pictured in the late Miocene coastal wetlands and forestry canopy of the Atacama Region of northern Chile. Freshwater crocodiles float in the river, and seals can be seen basking on rocks while seabirds soar above the shoreline. Credit: Mauricio Alvarezcio Alvarez

Capybaras in the desert? Fossil casts doubt on Atacama as world’s...

The two slabs of NSM G.1990.72.1, the Westlothiana fossil studied in the new work. Credit: Roger Benson, posted with permission from National Museums Scotland

Fossil long known as world’s oldest reptile dethroned

Artist impression of the end-Triassic fern spike interval. Weeding and pioneering ferns are overgrowing the disturbed soils and remains of conifer forests. Credits: Mark Garlick.

Triassic Inferno: Fires raged across Europe for thousands of years during...

A broken T. rex rib has preserved a stunning 66-million-year-old record of blood vessels and healing hidden inside the fossil. Credit: Phoenix Pleasant/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

A broken rib from the world’s largest T. rex hid a...

Gentoo penguin transporting a small stone in its beak, walking across rocky terrain at Neko Harbor, Antarctica. Credit: Eloi_Omella/Getty Images

Scientists discover first new penguin species in more than 100 years

Steinkern of Maclurites neritoides containing cryptic fauna cornulitids, bryozoans, and graptolites (arrows). Credit: Scientific Reports (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-62638-5

Marine animals first colonized empty seashells about 470 million years ago

Residue of the Cretaceous-Paleogene impact. Dark clay-rich KT boundary layer in Stevn's Klint, Denmark used in the study. Credit: Dr. Philippe Claeys.

Researchers identify class of ‘oddball’ meteorite that killed the dinosaurs

Reconstruction of the mosasaur fossil from Kaizuka City, Osaka Prefecture, reported in this study. © Satoshi Kawasaki

Japan’s first mosasaur premaxilla fossil hints at a new species

An artist's impression of a pliosaur. Credit: Megan Jacobs/University of Portsmouth

Jurassic sea monster was smaller than once thought, but no less...

The UB BIOST3 Research Group designs a public-facing web interface to discover the Earth’s ancient geography. Credit: University of Barcelona

New web tool maps fossil locations across ancient continents in seconds

Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and collaborators reported a 550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil, filling in a gap in the evolutionary family tree of one of the earliest animals. Photo by Spencer Coppage for Virginia Tech.

A rare fossil reveals that Earth’s earliest sponges were hiding in...

Reconstruction of Masripithecus moghraensis by Mauricio Antón. Credit: Copyrights belong to Professor Hesham Sallam

Masripithecus: A new Miocene ape from Egypt sheds light on the...

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Trace Fossil Ichnology: Reconstructing Ancient Behavior

The ancient marine amphibians Erythrobatrachus (foreground) and Aphaneramma (background) swimming along the coast of what is now far norther Western Australia 250 million years ago. Credit: Pollyanna von Knorring (Swedish Museum of Natural History), edited

Lost fossils reveal sea monsters that took over after Earth’s greatest...

A Jurassic-aged dinosaur footprint from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, displayed in 5 mm contours from a photogrammetric model. Credit: Tone Blakesley

This AI app can tell which dinosaur made a footprint

A petrified footprint by a dinosaur is visible in Carreras Pampa in Toro Toro National Park, north of Potosi, Bolivia, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Juan Karita

16,000 fossil footprints in central Bolivia reveal dinosaur behavior

The fossil replica of Deinosuchus schwimmeri on display in the Tellus Science Museum. Credit: Tellus Science Museum

Decades-long quest leads to first scholarly accurate fossil replica of ‘dinosaur-killer’...

Mustelipeda aff. punctata Kordos. Credit: Quaternary Science Reviews (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109631

Prehistoric elephant footprints documented for first time in Murcia’s fossil dunes

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