Paleontology news

New Oldest Bird

A fossil more primitive and older than the Archaeopteryx in the evolution of the avian line has been found.

Suminia: Life in the Trees 260 Million Years Ago

A small bone bed containing at least twelve individuals of the Permian synapsid Suminia is discovered.

An Australian Dinosaur Extravaganza

Three completely new dinosaur species are discovered with fossils from the Winton Formation of Queensland in Australia.

Mystery hominin turns into mystery hominoid

A lead author who published that a jaw fragment in Longgupo cave in Sichuan province, China, may have been from a Homo habilis-like hominin now thinks that it may have been from an as-yet-unknown species of ape.

A beautiful Mammoth fossil discovered in Serbia

An almost complete and beautifully preserved fossil of the Southern Mammoth was discovered a couple of weeks ago in Eastern Serbia.

How Big (Dead) Mammals Respond(ed) to Global Warming: Paleontology and Our Climate Crisis

By analyzing the isotope content in fossils from the Ice Age, it seems that some animals may not be as vulnerable to climate change as previously thought.

Miocene Ape: Anoiapithecus brevirostris

A hominoid fossil with a very flat face has been found in Spain.

Oldest Evidence of Leprosy Found in India

Signs of leprosy have been observed in skeletal material from around 2000 B.C. in Rajasthan, India.

Poor, poor Ida, Or: "Overselling an Adapid"

"Ida", an exceptionally well-preserved 47-million-year-old primate skeleton from Messel, Germany has finally been unveiled.

Extinction of the Old, Evolution of the New: What really happened to the dinosaurs?

There is now evidence that the Chicxulub impact occurred 300,000 years before the KT boundary indicated by the iridium.

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