The dispersal of the Vishnuonyx otters from the Indian subcontinent to Africa and Europe about 13 million years ago. The star (HAM 4) shows the position of the Hammerschmiede fossil site. Image: Nikos Kargopoulos

New Fossil: A new species of otter discovered in Germany

The Kawhia giant penguin Kairuku waewaeroa. Image credit: Simone Giovanardi. Permission for use of the image by media is granted by the artist, with credit.

Giant Waikato penguin: School kids discover new species

The extinction of their competitors allowed snakes to move into new niches and diversify enormously (Credit: Joschua Knüppe).

Modern snakes evolved from a few survivors of dino-killing asteroid

fossilized teeth from M. Latidens showing where cavities formed.

Oldest known mammal cavities discovered in 55-million-year-old fossils suggests a sweet...

500-million-year-old fossil represents rare discovery of ancient animal in North America

University of Tsukuba researchers have described a new apex predator from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, which coexisted with a smaller tyrannosauroid

Who was king before Tyrannosaurus? Uzbek fossil reveals new top dino

Titanokorys gainesi reconstruction. Illustration by Lars Fields, © Royal Ontario Museum.

Massive new animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale

Entombed in limestone blocks, the newly studied fossil is the first nearly complete skeleton of a pterosaur species that was first described in 2003. Photograph by Victor Beccari

Confiscated fossil turns out to be exceptional flying reptile from Brazil

Core samples for Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a. Credit: Elisabetta Erba.

Volcanism drove rapid ocean deoxygenation during the time of the dinosaurs

Skull fossils of amphibian. Credit: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Skull of 340 million year old animal digitally recreated, revealing secrets...

Two fossils of Brooksella alternata.

Icy waters of ‘Snowball Earth’ may have spurred early organisms to...

Fossilised Squalicorax tooth Nr. #07815 from the Jerusalem site. Credit: Omri Lernau

The City of David and the sharks’ teeth mystery

Chuandianella ovata, an extinct shrimp-like crustacean.

Paleonursery offers rare, detailed glimpse at life 518 million years ago

Ordovician black shales of the Mount Hare Formation, Road River Group (approximately 465 million years old) rise above conglomerates of the Aberdeen Member. The dangerous rapids of Aberdeen Canyon (Nan Zhak Nadhàdlaii), created by the Peel River cutting through the resistant conglomerates, appear at bottom left. (Image credit: Erik Sperling)

Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness

Upper molar of Altaynycteris aurora. Credit: Li Qiang

Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia

Uskiella spargen a small plant whose axes divide several times before bearing oval sporangia. Credit : Cyrille Prestianni

Discovery of the oldest plant fossils on the African continent!

Early lineages of mammal like this large Gobiconodon from Mongolia, outcompeted the ancestors of modern mammals in the time of dinosaurs. Credit: Corbin Rainbolt

Mammals in the time of dinosaurs held each other back

A cross-section of an 18.5 million-year-old fossil of Ampelorhiza heteroxylon. Credit: Nathan Jud/Provided

18.5 million year old vine fossil identified as new species

Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)

What can a dinosaur’s inner ear tell us? Just listen

The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans represents the starting point of human and chimpanzee evolution. Fossil apes play an essential role when it comes to reconstructing the nature of our ape ancestry. Printed with permission from © Christopher M. Smith

Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils

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