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A partial skeleton of Lagerpeton (hips, leg, and vertebrae) from ~235 million years from Argentina. Further examination of this specimen helped tie features of lagerpetids to pterosaurs. Photo courtesy of Sterling Nesbitt. Credit: Virginia Tech

Paleontologists find pterosaur precursors that fill a gap in early evolutionary...

Remnants of feather sheaths on the wings of the fossil bird Archaeopteryx, shows the earliest evidence of a complex moulting strategy. The white arrows indicate the feather sheaths. Scale bar is 1 cm. Credit: Kaye et al. 2020.

Archaeopteryx fossil provides insights into the origins of flight

Representative Image: Holotype of Onychonycteris finneyi

Researchers discover 16 million-year-old bat fossil

An artist's reconstruction of 'Anomalocaris' briggsi swimming within the twilight zone. Credit: Katrina Kenny

Incredible vision in ancient marine creatures drove an evolutionary arms race

New loriciferan from Japan: Wataloricus japonicus Credit: Shinta Fujimoto

A New Species of Rare Phylum Loricifera Discovered in the Deep-sea...

Illustration of the Jurassic thyreophoran Scelidosaurus harrisonii, Jack Mayer Wood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Only dinosaurs found in ireland described for the first time

Nearly complete exoskeleton (left) and cranidium (right) of Phantaspisauritus gen. et sp. nov. Credit: NIGPAS

New trilobite fossil reveals cephalic specialization of trilobites in Middle Cambrian

Amber piece from the site of San Just with dinosaur feather remains. Credits: S. Álvarez Parra et al. Scientific Reports

Palaeontologists describe a preservation process unique to resins

With mouths closed, the older, smaller teeth of the ancestors of today’s sharks stood upright on the jaw, while the younger and larger teeth pointed towards the tongue and were thus invisible when the mouth was closed. Credit: Christian Klug, UZH

Prehistoric shark hid its largest teeth

An artist impression of the newly discovered extinct monk seal species Credit: Jaime Bran. Copyrigh: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa.

Eomonachus belegaerensis : New fossil seal species rewrites history

Similar to present-day diurnal birds of prey (right), the talons on the hind toe and the second toe of Primoptynx poliotauros (left) are noticeably larger than the talons on the third and fourth toe. In modern owls (center) all four talons are roughly the same size.

A 55-Million-Year-Old Owl Skeleton

Fungus gnat trapped in a piece of defaunation resin from Madagascar. Credit: Enrique Peñalver

After 1760 It Is Called Resin

Pterosaurs with these types of beaks are better known at the time period from North Africa, so it would be reasonable to assume a likeness to the North African Alanqa. Credit: Attributed to Davide Bonadonna

Fossil shark turns into mystery pterosaur

Titanosaurs were common at the time of the asteroid hit at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago. (Credit: AlienCat)

New analysis refutes claim that dinosaurs were in decline before asteroid...

The extinct Kiritimati Sandpiper, Prosobonia cancellata - a close cousin of the newly discovered Prosobonia sauli. Credit: George Edward Lodge, 1907

Henderson island fossils reveal new Polynesian sandpiper species

Fossil specimen of Kylinxia, holotype. Credit: ZENG Han

A 520-million-year-old, five-eyed fossil reveals arthropod origin

Rhamphohynchus - one of 75 pterosaur species studied by the researchers Credit: Mark Witton

Giant lizards learnt to fly over millions of years

An illustration of Brevicaudosaurus. Credit: Tyler Stone BA '19, art and cinema; see his website tylerstoneart.wordpress.com

Ancient marine predator had a built-in float

Buriolestes schultzi brain. Credit: Márcio L. Castro

Researchers reconstruct the first complete brain of one of the oldest...

CT scan of coprolite specimen, BRSMG Cf15546, in different views, showing tuberculated bone (blue) from a fish skull, and two vertebrae from the tail of the marine reptile Pachystropheus, in yellow and green. Credit: Marie Cueille, and Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol

Fossil poop shows fishy lunches from 200 million years ago

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