A slab containing fossils of Antarctanax. Credit: Copyright Brandon Peecook, Field Museum

Iguana-sized dinosaur cousin discovered in Antarctica

These are well preserved footprints of the find site in Morocco, with clearly visible claw impressions. Credit: The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Long-necked dinosaurs rotated their forefeet to the side

Complete fossil and line drawing of Eretmorhipis carrolldongi.

A reptile platypus from the early Triassic

One of the tiny fossilized teeth recovered from Galagadon, so named for the shape of its teeth, which resemble the spaceships in the video game Galaga. Credit: Copyright Terry Gates

Ancient carpet shark discovered with ‘spaceship-shaped’ teeth

Crocodiles have complex past

Tethymyxine tapirostrum, is a 100-million-year-old, 12-inch long fish embedded in a slab of Cretaceous period limestone from Lebanon, believed to be the first detailed fossil of a hagfish.

Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree

Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creature

CHW 189 from the private collection of Herman Winkelhorst (Netherlands). The neck of the animal is excellently preserved, but the rest is not. One possible explanation may be that this is the result of uneven colonization of the carcass by microorganisms and algae, which created a protective layer especially around the neck

Fossil deposit is much richer than expected

Reconstruction of trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere

Part of a quilted Ediacaran fossil is partly covered by ancient wind-drift from Namibia. Image courtesy of Greg Retallack.

Thin layers of sediment point to early arrival of life on...

Life reconstruction of ichthyosaur skull. Credit: Bob Nicholls (Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum)

Medical scanner helps to unlock the mysteries of a giant prehistoric...

Four complete Tragychrysa ovoruptora newborns preserved together with egg shell remains and one visible egg burster (right inset). Credit: Modified from the open access article published in Palaeontology: 'The hatching mechanism of 130-million-year-old insects: an association of neonates, egg shells, and egg bursters in Lebanese amber'

Newborn insects trapped in amber show first evidence of how to...

Mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs

Saltriovenator zanellai

The oldest large-sized predatory dinosaur comes from the Italian Alps

millipede

450 fossilized millipedes found in 100-million-year-old amber

Panoplosaurus mirus and Euoplocephalus tutus.

Huge armored dinosaurs battled overheating with nasal air-conditioning

Megalosaurus

Spectacular flying reptiles soared over Britain’s tropical Jurassic past

‘Treasure trove’ of dinosaur footprints found in southern England

Close-up of a looping millipede death-trail.

Early animals: Death near the shoreline, not life on land

Nanjinganthus fossil

Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought

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