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The scientists examined more than 3,500 fossils to identify survivor pairs - plants that grew in both the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods. The two fossils on the left are from the Cretaceous, and the two on the right are from the Paleogene. Credit: Elena Stiles

Leaf fossils show severe end-Cretaceous plant extinction in southern Argentina

Geology Page - January 10, 2021

2D Life reconstruction Atuchin. Credit: © Andrey Atuchin

The ‘crazy beast’ that lived among the dinosaurs

Ubirajara jubatus is named after a Tupi Indian name for 'lord of the spear', in reference to the creature's stiffened, elongate integumentary structures, and jubatus from the Latin meaning 'maned' or 'crested'. Image must be credited Credit: Artwork © Bob Nicholls / Paleocreations.com 2020

New dinosaur showed descendants how to dress to impress

The head and body of the Messel python are almost completely preserved. Credit: Hessian State Museum Darmstadt

World’s earliest python identified from 47 million-year-old fossil remains

Part of a jawbone of the 422-million-year-old fossil bony fish Lophosteus, visualized with a high-resolution X-ray technique. On the right, the surface of the jawbone is shown in gray. In the middle, exposed teeth are highlighted in gold and dermal odontodes in shades of purple, pink and red. On the left, the bone itself is made transparent, revealing internal blood vessels and pulp cavities, shown in blue and green, as well as the embedded teeth and dermal odontodes. Credit: Chen et al. (CC BY 4.0)

Primitive fish fossils reveal developmental origins of teeth

Braincase and endocast of Thecodontosaurus antiquus. From CT scans of the braincase fossil, 3-D models of the braincase and the endocast were generated and studied. Credit: Created by Antonio Ballell with BioRender, Thecodontosaurus silhouette from PhyloPic.org.

Research reveals unexpected insights into early dinosaur’s brain, eating habits and...

Geology Page - December 17, 2020

Illustration shows a cross section of the prehistoric iguana burrow, and how the surrounding landscape may have looked during the Late Pleistocene Epoch. Credit: Anthony Martin.

First-known fossil iguana burrow found in the Bahamas

Geology Page - December 17, 2020

Illustration of Thalassodraco etchesi. Credit: Megan Jacobs

Prehistoric ‘sea dragon’ discovered on English Channel Coast is identified as...

Geology Page - December 17, 2020

A partial skeleton of Lagerpeton (hips, leg, and vertebrae) from ~235 million years from Argentina. Further examination of this specimen helped tie features of lagerpetids to pterosaurs. Photo courtesy of Sterling Nesbitt. Credit: Virginia Tech

Paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary...

Geology Page - December 17, 2020

Remnants of feather sheaths on the wings of the fossil bird Archaeopteryx, shows the earliest evidence of a complex moulting strategy. The white arrows indicate the feather sheaths. Scale bar is 1 cm. Credit: Kaye et al. 2020.

Archaeopteryx fossil provides insights into the origins of flight

Geology Page - December 17, 2020

Representative Image: Holotype of Onychonycteris finneyi

Researchers discover 16 million-year-old bat fossil

Geology Page - December 3, 2020

An artist's reconstruction of 'Anomalocaris' briggsi swimming within the twilight zone. Credit: Katrina Kenny

Incredible vision in ancient marine creatures drove an evolutionary arms race

Geology Page - December 3, 2020

New loriciferan from Japan: Wataloricus japonicus Credit: Shinta Fujimoto

A New Species of Rare Phylum Loricifera Discovered in the Deep-sea...

Geology Page - December 3, 2020

Illustration of the Jurassic thyreophoran Scelidosaurus harrisonii, Jack Mayer Wood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Only dinosaurs found in ireland described for the first time

Geology Page - December 3, 2020

Nearly complete exoskeleton (left) and cranidium (right) of Phantaspisauritus gen. et sp. nov. Credit: NIGPAS

New trilobite fossil reveals cephalic specialization of trilobites in Middle Cambrian

Geology Page - November 20, 2020

Amber piece from the site of San Just with dinosaur feather remains. Credits: S. Álvarez Parra et al. Scientific Reports

Palaeontologists describe a preservation process unique to resins

Geology Page - November 20, 2020

With mouths closed, the older, smaller teeth of the ancestors of today’s sharks stood upright on the jaw, while the younger and larger teeth pointed towards the tongue and were thus invisible when the mouth was closed. Credit: Christian Klug, UZH

Prehistoric shark hid its largest teeth

Geology Page - November 20, 2020

An artist impression of the newly discovered extinct monk seal species Credit: Jaime Bran. Copyrigh: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa.

Eomonachus belegaerensis : New fossil seal species rewrites history

Geology Page - November 20, 2020

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

Geology Page - November 20, 2020

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

After 1760 It Is Called Resin

Geology Page - November 20, 2020

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

Geology Page - November 20, 2020

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...

Geology Page - November 20, 2020

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

Geology Page - November 20, 2020

Fossil specimen of Kylinxia, holotype. Credit: ZENG Han

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

Geology Page - November 4, 2020

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

Giant lizards learnt to fly over millions of years

Geology Page - November 4, 2020

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