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

Komodo dragon. Credit: Charlotte Ellis, Zoological Society of London

Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth to rip apart their prey

Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis on the Panthalassan Ocean coast artwork by Jorge Gonzalez

A new species of extinct crocodile relative rewrites life on the...

A rocky landscape with tundra plants near the eastern coast of Greenland, similar to what the interior of the island may have looked like when its massive ice sheet melted away. (Photo: Joshua Brown)

Greenland fossil discovery reveals increased risk of sea-level catastrophe

Musankwa sanyatiensis leg bones as they were discovered in the ground on Spurwing Island, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Credit: Paul Barrett

Musankwa sanyatiensis, a new dinosaur from Zimbabwe

Footprint found in Triassic rocks from South Wales Credit: Cindy Howells at the National Museum of Wales

Origins of ‘Welsh dragons’ finally exposed by experts

Reconstruction of the oldest sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere. Nothosaurs swimming along the ancient southern polar coast of what is now New Zealand around 246 million years ago. Artwork by Stavros Kundromichalis.

Ancient polar sea reptile fossil is oldest ever found in Southern...

Composite image using high-resolution microscopy and spectroscopy showing the absorption and replacement processes of rare earth elements in the eggshell.

A cracking discovery – eggshell waste can recover rare earth elements...

Coal core

Can coal mines be tapped for rare earth elements?

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