Why baby pterosaurs, not adults, dominate the fossil record
For two tiny flying reptiles, death came suddenly and violently 150 million years ago.
Now, thanks to remarkable fossils discovered in southern Germany, paleontologists have...
These 165-million-year-old insects show early leaf mimicry strategies
Around 165 million years ago, some insects in what is now northeastern China developed an extraordinary trick: they evolved wings that looked almost identical...
A deadly bone infection may have wiped out Brazil’s long-necked dinosaurs
In southeast Brazil, scientists studying the fossilized bones of giant dinosaurs have uncovered a deadly secret.
A group of sauropods—huge, long-necked dinosaurs that roamed the...
How rising ocean oxygen sparked an explosion of ancient marine life
Nearly 400 million years ago, life in the oceans changed forever.
New research shows that a rise in deep-ocean oxygen levels opened up previously uninhabitable...
Dinosaur fossils reveal clues that could help fight cancer
A new study published in the journal Biology suggests that advanced techniques used to study dinosaur fossils might help scientists better understand cancer.
Researchers from...
75-million-year-old dragonfly fossil fills evolutionary gap in Canada
For the first time, paleontologists have uncovered a dragonfly fossil from Canada’s dinosaur age, and it’s helping to close a major gap in the...
How huge meat-eating dinosaurs hunted in unique ways
Not all giant, meat-eating dinosaurs had the same kind of bite.
A new study has revealed that while the famous Tyrannosaurus rex had a skull...
Dinosaur teeth reveal secrets of Earth’s ancient greenhouse climate
Scientists have discovered that dinosaur teeth hold an extraordinary record of Earth’s climate during the Mesozoic Era, between 252 and 66 million years ago.
By...
Fossil misjudged for 150 years is actually a game-changing find
For over a century, a tiny fossil at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology was wrongly believed to be a caterpillar—or maybe a worm, or...
Ancient dinosaur footprints reveal surprising herding behavior
New dinosaur footprints found in Canada suggest that different species of dinosaurs may have traveled together in herds—similar to how zebras and wildebeest move...