UNLV geologist Stephen Rowland discovered that a set of 28 footprints left behind by a reptile-like creature 310 million years ago are the oldest ever to be found in Grand Canyon National Park.

Reptile tracks oldest ever found in Grand Canyon

The skull of the holotype specimen of C. parvus (JLUM L0304-j-Zn2).

The teeth of Changchunsaurus: Rare insight into ornithopod dinosaur tooth evolution

Ostrocod

Tiny, ancient fossil shows evidence of the breath of life

Teeth of Simiolus minutus, which currently reside in the National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, were found in the Tugen Hills of Kenya.

Tiniest ever fossil ape discovered in Kenya

The wavy appearance of the enamel of Changchunsaurus in thin section and under cross-polarized light.

Chew on this: Two new studies reveal secrets of early dinosaur...

The region where the new species of sauropod was found is unusual as it would have been a desert during that era, 110 million years ago

Paleontologists discover new sauropod species in Argentina

Giant nocturnal elephant birds are shown foraging in the ancient forests of Madagascar at night.

Giant flightless birds were nocturnal and possibly blind

An assortment of paleognath and neognath bird eggs and a fossil theropod egg (on the right).

Dinosaurs put all colored birds’ eggs in one basket, evolutionarily speaking

Ammonite Fossil

Paleontologists discovered six new species in the East African Rift

The fossil beetle, Propiestus archaicus, preserved in amber.

Tiny beetle trapped in amber might show how landmasses shifted

Dr. John Nudds with Archaeopteryx fossil specimen at the European Synchrotron in Grenoble.

New species of ‘missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds identified

Fossil tortoise

Tortoise evolution: How did they become so big?

Dinosaurs

‘Superlungs’ gave dinosaurs the energy to run and fight

The remains of skeletons that were found in the Pompeii archaeological site, Italy, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. The Italian news agency ANSA says new excavations in the ancient buried city of Pompeii have yielded the undisturbed skeletons of people who had taken refuge from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D.79. The director of the Pompeii archaeological site, Massimo Osanna, told ANSA on Wednesday the skeletons, believed to be two women and three children, were still intact, having been left undisturbed despite looting at the site centuries ago.

Dig at Italy’s Pompeii volcanic site yields 5 skeletons

Dickinsonia costata

Special journal issue looks for new clues about old life

Palaeontologist Jonah Choiniere says a student noticed a 'few (fossilised) bones coming out' of a massive rock on a remote farm in central South Africa.

‘Dinosaur country’: fossil hunters’ S. African paradise

piranha-like fish

Piranha-like specimen, 150 million years old, is earliest known flesh-eating fish

mosasaurs

Did mosasaurs hunt like killer whales?

An underwater picture of the modern demosponge species Rhabdastrella globostellata

Oldest evidence for animals

Tylosaurus fossil

Smallest ever Tylosaurus fossil sheds light on species

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