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A skeletal mount of the mosasaur 'Gnathomortis stadtmani' at BYU’s Eyring Science Center. USU Eastern paleontologist Josh Lively named the giant marine lizard that roamed the oceans of North America toward the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Courtesy BYU.

Jaws of death: Paleontologist renames giant, prehistoric marine lizard

Artist’s impression of Spinosaurus. Credit: Davide Bonadonna

Dino teeth research prove giant predatory dinosaur lived in water

Life reconstruction of Euparkeria highlighting the body parts investigated in this study. Credit: Oliver Demuth

Modelling of ancient fossil movement reveals step in the evolution of...

Life reconstruction of the fossil bird Confuciusornis, one of the first beaked birds. Confuciusornis was roughly the size of a crow. It is known from hundreds of beautifully-preserved fossils, found in Early Cretaceous rocks from northeastern China. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto

Bird beak revealed by laser imaging informs early beak function and...

A bundle of giant sperm of the present-day ostracod crustacean Cyclocypris serena. Photo credit: R. Matzke-Karasz.

World’s Oldest Animal Sperm Trapped in Amber

Ostracod crustaceans were entrapped in this tiny piece of Cretaceous amber found in Myanmar.

The oldest known sperm cells

Saturn's icy

Process that might have led to first organic molecules

Summary of major extinction events through time, highlighting the new, Carnian Pluvial Episode at 233 million years ago. Credit: D. Bonadonna/ MUSE, Trento

Discovery of a new mass extinction

The dawn crested penguin Eudyptes atatu in New Zealand, three million years ago. Image by Simone Giovanardi. Permission for use of the image for a press release is granted by the artist. Credit: Massey University

Newly-described fossils reveal an ancient origin for New Zealand penguins

Eurypterid specimen image: Images of the eurypterid specimen fossil that led to Lamsdell’s discovery. Credit: Melanie Hopkins Photo

Coming up for air: Extinct sea scorpions could breathe out of...

Researchers collected and analyzed permafrost from four sites in the Yukon to develop a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of extinct animals and thousands of plants from less than a gram of sediment. Credit: Tyler Murchie/ McMaster University

Thousands of species recorded in a speck of soil

A huge mammoth graveyard has been uncovered at the site of Mexico City's new airport

Mammoth graveyard unearthed at Mexico’s new airport

Map illustrating the location of Kapi (black star) relative to modern (dark green) and historical (light green) populations of lesser apes and the approximate distribution of early fossil apes in East Africa (blue triangles). Green triangles mark the location of previously discovered fossil gibbons. The new fossil is millions of years older than any previously known fossil gibbon and highlights their migration from Africa to Asia. Credit: Luci Betti-Nash.

New fossil ape discovered in India

Palaeoartist reconstruction of a 16 m adult Megalodon. Credit: Reconstruction by Oliver E. Demuth

True size of prehistoric mega-shark finally revealed

Sauropod Embryo. Credit: University of Manchester

Newly discovered rare dinosaur embryos show sauropods had rhino-like horns

The largest and the smallest: dinosaurs reached an amazing range in size through the Mesozoic Era. Credit: Vitor Silva

How to weigh a dinosaur

Mukawaryu

Using math to examine the sex differences in dinosaurs

The fossil on the right is a complete specimen of Gyaltsenglossus senis (ROMIP 65606.1) showing full length of the proboscis with the six feeding arms at the top. Illustration by Emily S. Damstra. Both images © Royal Ontario Museum

A Bizarre Half Billion-Year Old Worm with Tentacles Solves Evolutionary Mystery

The Titanosaurian embryo skull along with a skull and head reconstruction. Credit: Kundrat et al. /Current Biology

First 3D look at an embryonic sauropod dinosaur reveals unexpected facial...

Life restoration of Lystrosaurus in a state of torpor. Credit: Crystal ShinLife restoration of Lystrosaurus in a state of torpor. Credit: Crystal Shin

Fossil evidence of ‘hibernation-like’ state in 250-million-year-old Antarctic animal

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