UV photography of Pterodactylus. Ultraviolet light reveals remarkable details of the fossil invisible under normal lighting. This famous specimen showcases preserved soft tissues, including the delicate wing membranes, which fluoresce vividly under UV illumination.

A festive flying reptile family reunion 150 million years in the...

An imposing fully-grown male Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus wandering the Kashmir Valley, 400 thousand years ago, towering over a herd of Central Asian red deer traversing by. In the distance, a small band of prehistoric humans set up campfire to cook their meal. Credit: Chen Yu, University of Helsinki

Giant prehistoric elephant skull from India belongs to mysterious extinct species

The fossil is believed to be between 11 and 16 million years old, from the Miocene Period. Credit: Michael Frese, University of Canberra

Extremely well-preserved fossil sawfly sheds new light on co-evolution of insects...

The holotype specimen of Lomankus edgecombei. Photograph at left, other images at right are 3D models from CT scanning. Credit: Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models).

Golden bugs: Spectacular new fossil arthropods preserved in fool’s gold

This image provided by Mariana Chuliver shows the oldest-known tadpole fossil found in Patagonia, Argentina. Credit: Mariana Chuliver via AP

This ancient tadpole fossil is the oldest ever discovered

Life restoration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto.

New fossil reveals the evolution of flying reptiles

Paleontologists and students from McGill University have documented Saskatchewan's first confirmed fossil specimens

Paleontologists discover Saskatchewan’s first Centrosaurus and Citipes elegans fossils

Fossil skull of the newly described amphibian. Credit: David Lovelace

Fossil amphibians found in burrows where they waited for the next...

The newly discovered worm lizard species is the largest in the world. Presumably, the animals fed mainly on snails 50 million years ago. Credit: Jaime Chirinos

World’s Largest Worm Lizard Fossil Discovered

Reconstruction of an avisaurid (e.g., A. darwini). Morphology of the tarsometatarsus suggests that these large birds engaged in raptorial behavior and could carry proportionally large prey. Illustration done by Ville Sinkkonen. Credit Clark et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Newly discovered Late Cretaceous birds may have carried heavy prey like...

Nekemias mucronata fossil lateral leaflets from the collection of the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona.

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the grape family

Riograndia and Brasilodon Credit: Jorge Blanco

Brazilian fossils reveal jaw-dropping discovery in mammal evolution

Results of the multimodal analysis conducted on microfossils mounted on ITO glass. Optical observation, electron microscopy, and secondary ion mass spectrometry were performed on the same sample. The analysis successfully detected phosphorus and molybdenum aligned with the microfossil's membrane structure for the first time. ©Tohoku University

Unveiling ancient life: New method sheds light on early cellular and...

Robsonomyia baltica sp. nov. (NHMD-300551): (A) male (holotype No NHMD-300551a); (B) amber piece with position of male; (C) female (paratype No NHMD-300551b); (D) female (paratype No NHMD-300551c); (E) amber piece with position of females. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59448-y

Fungus gnat entombed in a 40-million-year-old piece of amber is a...

The teeth of Iguanodon weren't as adapted for chewing, and formed much more slowly, than those of their later relatives. Credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

Plant-eating dinosaurs evolved backup teeth to eat tough food, research reveals

Inabtanin alarabia, left, and Arambourgiania philadelphiae, right. With flying styles also demonstrated. ©Terryl Whitlatch

Some Pterosaurs Would Flap, Others Would Soar

Images of forams created by a scanning electronic microscope. Credit: Dustin Harper

What microscopic fossilized shells tell us about ancient climate change

L. Theropod footprint from Sousa Basin, Lower Cretaceous of Northeastern Brazil. Credit: Ismar de Souza Carvalho. R. Theropod tracks from the Koum Basin in Cameroon. Credit: SMU.

Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean

A reconstructed image of Pakudyptes at a New Zealand coast. PHOTO: Tatsuya Shinmura & Ashoro Museum of Paleontology

Fossil shows how penguins’ wings evolved

The Syndyoceras existed for 4.2 million years during the Cenozoic era on the North American continent. This skeletal display can be found in the University of Nebraska State Museum–Morill Hall.

Research tracks 66 million years of mammalian diversity

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