Fossil "swim tracks," a type of vertebrate trace fossil gaining recognition in the field of paleontology, is  made by various tetrapods (four-footed land-living vertebrates) as they…

The origin of curious ring-like structures that formed half a billion years ago on a seabed in Wisconsin is an ancient unsolved riddle and academics would like you to help them figure it out. It…

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of a long-necked dinosaur.  Qijianglong (pronounced "CHI-jyang-lon") was about 45 feet long and lived about 160 million years ago in the Late…

A new species of dinosaur has turned out not to be a dinosaur at all, it is instead one of the large reptiles that lived before dinosaurs took over the world. But like many dinosaurs, it looked…

Scientists have extracted DNA from mysterious marsupial megafauna that roamed Australia over 40,000 years ago -  Australia's extinct giant kangaroos. The team extracted DNA sequences from two…

Dinosaurs once flourished in Europe but when an asteroid hit 66 million years ago, they died quickly, according to a new study. That an asteroid killed off the dinosaurs is widely held, but until…

Dearcmhara shawcrossi, Scottish dino-fish. Todd Marshall By Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh Today my colleagues and I had the great privilege to announce a remarkable new discovery: a…

Reconstructing ancient life has long required a certain amount of inference and imagination - especially speculative is the coloration of long-extinct organisms. New methods of investigation are…

Many large mammals went extinct at the end of the most recent Ice Age (about 11,000 years ago), including the Steppe bison, Bison priscus. Recently an intact one was found, literally frozen in…

A fossil of the ancient horse Eurohippus messelensis found in Germany contains a fetus as well as parts of the uterus and associated tissues. Eurohippus messelensis had four toes on each forefoot…