UI professor identifies largest known crocodile
A crocodile large enough to swallow humans once lived in East Africa, according to a University of Iowa researcher. View More (2012-05-10)
New UF study shows early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts
A new University of Florida study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during the last ice age and lived alongside giant extinct mammals. View More (2012-05-04)
New coelacanth find rewrites history of the ancient fish
Coelacanths, an ancient group of fishes once thought to be long extinct, made headlines in 1938 when one of their modern relatives was caught off the coast of South Africa. Now coelacanths are making another splash and University of Alberta researchers are responsible. View More (2012-05-03)
UF scientists name new ancient camels from Panama Canal excavation
The discovery of two new extinct camel species by University of Florida scientists sheds new light on the history of the tropics, a region containing more than half the world's biodiversity and some of its most important ecosystems. View More (2012-03-01)
European Neandertals were on the verge of extinction even before the arrival of modern humans
New findings from an international team of researchers show that most neandertals in Europe died off around 50,000 years ago. View More (2012-02-27)
Paleontologist describes large nest of juvenile dinosaurs, first of their genus ever found
A nest containing the fossilized remains of 15 juvenile Protoceratops andrewsi dinosaurs from Mongolia has been described by a University of Rhode Island paleontologist, revealing new information about postnatal development and parental care. View More (2011-11-22)
Details of ancient shark attack preserved in fossil whale bone
A fragment of whale rib found in a North Carolina strip mine is offering scientists a rare glimpse at the interactions between prehistoric sharks and whales some 3- to 4-million years ago during the Pliocene. View More (2011-11-11)
Super-sized muscle made twin-horned dinosaur a speedster
A meat-eating dinosaur that terrorized its plant-eating neighbours in South America was a lot deadlier than first thought, a University of Alberta researcher has found. View More (2011-10-17)
Rebuilding the head of an armoured dinosaur
A University of Alberta-led research team has taken a rare look inside the skull of a dinosaur and come away with unprecedented details on the brain and nasal passages of the 72 million year old animal. View More (2011-09-30)
Tree resin captures evolution of feathers on dinosaurs and birds
Secrets from the age of the dinosaurs are usually revealed by fossilized bones, but a University of Alberta research team has turned up a treasure trove of Cretaceous feathers trapped in tree resin. View More (2011-09-16)
UF study names new ancient crocodile relative from the land of Titanoboa
Did an ancient crocodile relative give the world's largest snake a run for its money? View More (2011-09-15)
New species of ancient predatory fish discovered
The Academy of Natural Sciences today announced the discovery of a new species of large predatory fish that prowled ancient North American waterways during the Devonian Period, before backboned animals existed on land. View More (2011-09-13)
Nature reaches for the high-hanging fruit
In the first study of its kind, researchers have used tools of paleontology to gain new insights into the diversity of natural plant chemicals. View More (2011-08-17)
New Montana State research sheds light on South Pole dinosaurs
Dog-sized dinosaurs that lived near the South Pole, sometimes in the dark for months at a time, had bone tissue very similar to dinosaurs that lived everywhere on the planet, according to a doctoral candidate at Montana State University. View More (2011-08-05)
New Texas Native: 96-million-year-old croc
Making its first appearance in Texas, a prehistoric crocodile thought to have originated in Europe now appears to have been a native of the Lone Star State. View More (2011-07-21)
New duck-billed dinosaur gives scientists clues to evolution of head ornamentation and provinciality
A new genus and species of hadrosaur (duck-billed) dinosaur - the oldest duck-billed dinosaur known from North America - has been named by scientists who expect the discovery to shed new light on dinosaur evolution. View More (2011-07-21)
How the mole got its twelve fingers
Polydactyly is a hereditary anomaly that is relatively common in both humans and animals. Moles also have additional fingers. In their case, however, the irregularity compared to the five-finger formula of land vertebrates is the norm. View More (2011-07-15)
Tiny teeth are new mouse species, a rare
Tiny fossil teeth discovered in Inner Mongolia are a new species of birch mouse, indicating that ancestors of the small rodent are much older than previously reported, according to paleontologist Yuri Kimura, Southern Methodist University in Dallas. View More (2011-05-25)
China fossil shows bird, crocodile family trees split earlier than thought
A fossil unearthed in China in the 1970s of a creature that died about 247 million years ago, originally thought to be a distant relative of both birds and crocodiles, turns out to have come from the crocodile family tree after it had already split from the bird family tree, according to research led by a University of Washington paleontologist. View More (2011-05-19)
Caves and their dripstones tell us about the uplift of mountains
In one of his songs Bob Dylan asks "How many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?", and thus poses an intriguing geological question for which an accurate answer is not easily provided. View More (2011-05-02)
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