Paleontologists
Giant beavers (members of the genus Castoroides) inhabited North America throughout the mid- to late...
Paleontologists in Australia have identified a previously unknown plant-eating dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous. Remarkably, the fossilized bones of these...
Paleontologists have discovered a remarkable amount of new information about dinosaurs over the past few decades. Michael J. Benton, a professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Bristol in England, was part of the team that in 2008 confirmed the...
While fossils provide us clues of the basic anatomy and biology of extinct animals, rarely are they able to hint at how these ancient creatures socialized or behaved. This is simply due to the fact that freezing multiple creatures in the same moment in time would...
A new model identifies unexpected potential paths for the spread of human culture and technology.
The two new species, named Phuwiangvenator yaemniyomi and Vayuraptor nongbualamphuensis, roamed the Earth approximately 125 million years ago (...
A study published at the British journal Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society unveils the discovery of a new dinosaur species, which lived in the...
Almost half of all mammals have become extinct, with the proportion reaching two-thirds in the case of large mammals.
An international team of paleontologists has discovered 1,000- to 900-million-year-old microfossils of a fungus in estuarine shale of the Grassy Bay Formation in Arctic Canada. These multicellular organic-walled microfossils are more than half a billion years...
Construction workers have unearthed fossils in a Denver suburb that experts say could be from a rare horned dinosaur.