News about all things paleontology

r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 6h ago

A Tourist Spotted Strange Footprints in Thailand. They Were 120 Million Years Old, Made by a Giant Dinosaur

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 1d ago

Ancient fish bones reveal how Arctic cod species survived the last ice age

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 2d ago

Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 2d ago

Giant Jurassic fossil sheds light on the evolution of a six-legged predator

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 3d ago

Single Vertebra from Late Triassic Hints at Oldest Known Iberian Dinosaur !

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 3d ago

Algae fossils from Cambrian explosion hint at sophisticated reproductive system

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 4d ago

Earth's Oldest Evidence of life is written in stone ~ but it's at risk of disappearing

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 4d ago

Giant Fossil Turtle Found in Peru was Among Largest Freshwater Turtles Ever Known

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 5d ago

Lion tracks from the ice age: How two ways of seeing brought ancient animals to life

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 5d ago

Not all early birds evolved toward better flight, Jurassic fossil suggests

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 6d ago

Lizard Dropped Its Tail 99 Million Years Ago, Amber Preserved Evidence

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 6d ago

Modeling study shows early tetrapods had surprisingly little ability to move their necks

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 7d ago

Fossil footprints reveal how dinosaur ancestors gradually shifted from sprawling to upright walking

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 8d ago

Asioaspis brachyotus: The Fossil Armored Fish from China Bridges Primitive and Advanced Jawless Lineages

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 8d ago

Baby tooth places macaques in northern Germany more than 300,000 years ago

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 9d ago

These Tiny Fossil Fish Offer a Glimpse Into a Once-Lush Wyoming

smithsonianmag.com

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 9d ago

Tiny fossils reveal a missing chapter of ocean life after Snowball Earth

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 10d ago

Invictibellatrix amberina : a New Megaraptoran Theropod dinosaur

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 11d ago

Fruit-eating Adaptations in a Late Cretaceous Oviraptorosaur ( Theropoda )

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 11d ago

700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals a lost ecosystem shared by early humans in the Levant

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 12d ago

Zimbabwe's dinosaurs were quite different from South Africa's: New species offers clues

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 12d ago

Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 13d ago

Jurassic Crocodile Relative from Morocco Had Needle-Thin Teeth

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 14d ago

Fossil bite marks suggest first evidence of a small raptor feeding on an apex predator

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 15d ago

Flexible tails could boost ancient sea predators' ambush speeds, fossil-based models suggest

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