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Flake of clear yellow amber from Anglesea, Victoria containing a new, beautifully preserved biting midge ca. 41 million years old. Credit: Enrique Peñalver.

Fossil trove sheds light on ancient antipodean ecology

Photograph of the fossil sandgrouse Linxiavis inaquosus (left) with a fabricated-color image (right) of the bird's skeleton based on CT scanning data Credit: IVPP

Sandgrouse : Six million-year-old bird skeleton points to arid past of...

Image shows artwork of the Afrotapejara zouhrii. Credit: Megan Jacobs, Baylor University, Texas

Palaeobiologists have identified another new species of pterosaur

A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor species, according to a new publication in the journal Scientific Reports. Dineobellator notohesperus adds to scientists' understanding of the paleo-biodiversity of the American Southwest, offering a clearer picture of what life was like in this region near the end of the reign of the dinosaurs. Credit: Sergey Krasovskiy

Dineobellator notohesperus : New feathered dinosaur was one of the last...

A 3D laser scan of an Ikaria wariootia impression. (Droser Lab/UCR)

Ancestor of all animals identified in Australian fossils

Example coprolites from Rancho La Brea (A) prior to asphalt removal with surrounding sediments, (B) showing intact pellets with plant material, (C) isolated, cleaned pellets. Figure 2, from: Mychajliw et al. 2020. Exceptionally preserved asphaltic coprolites expand the spatiotemporal range of a North American paleoecological proxy. Credit: Carrie Howard

Unprecedented preservation of fossil feces from the La Brea Tar Pits

Dr Daniel Field holding a replica version of the 'Wonderchicken' skull

Wonderchicken : fossil from the age of dinosaurs reveals origin of...

This mural was originally made for a recent Royal Ontario Museum exhibit about a fossil ankylosaur named Zuul crurivastator. That fossil is found within a couple of meters stratigraphically/temporally of the site described in this paper. The last author on the study, David Evans, is the dinosaur curator at the Royal Ontario Museum and was also involved in the description of Zuul and design of that exhibit. Credit: Danielle Dufault, Royal Ontario Museum.

Late cretaceous dinosaur-dominated ecosystem

Numerous specimens of Kateretidae in a piece of amber from the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in Nanjing (China). Included are also pollen grains from primitive water lilies. Credit: Georg Oleschinski/Uni Bonn

Beetles changed their diet during the Cretaceous period

Roughly 66 million years ago an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan peninsula. New research shows darkness, not cold, likely drove a mass extinction after the impact. Credit: NASA

Darkness, not cold, likely responsible for dinosaur-killing extinction

Fossil rudist bivalves (Vaccinites) from the Al-Hajar Mountains, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Wikipedia, Wilson44691 – Own work, Public Domain

Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70 million years ago

The grey line in the rock, running from the foreground away under the boulder towards the mountains, is one of the shear zones from the study area. Credit: Lucy Campbell

‘Fossil earthquakes’ offer new insight into seismic activity deep below Earth’s...

Burmese amber with Oculudentavis skull nearly perfectly preserved inside. Credit: Lida Xing

Hummingbird : Smallest Known Dinosaur Found in Amber

Meganeura

Meganeura : The largest insect ever existed was a giant dragonfly

Ancient Armadillo

Ancient Armadillo The Size Of A Car Discovered By Farmer In...

Aneuretopsychidae from Late Cretaceous Burmese amber. Credit: NIGPAS

Amber specimens reveal origin of long mouthpart of scorpionflies

Fossilised threads - some as long as four metres - connecting organisms known as rangeomorphs, which dominated Earth's oceans half a billion years ago. Credit: Alex Liu

Half billion-year-old ‘social network’ observed in early animals

A tiny lizard forefoot of the genus Anolis is trapped in amber that is about 15 to 20 million years old. Credit: Jonas Barthel

Rare lizard fossil preserved in amber

Maculaferrum blaisi, described in a study published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, is the first hemipteran insect (true bug) to be discovered at the Redmond Formation, a fossil site from the Cretaceous period near Schefferville, Labrador. Credit: Alexandre V. Demers-Potvin

Fossilized wing gives clues about Labrador’s biodiversity during the Cretaceous

Mystery has long surrounded the evolution of Facivermis, a worm-like creature that lived approximately 518 million years ago in the Cambrian period. Credit: Franz Anthony

Early worm lost lower limbs for tube-dwelling lifestyle

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