Paleontology

The dinosaur is one of the largest and youngest megaraptors on the fossil record, say paleontologists.

Scientists describe the two-inch bone of a 110 million-year-old elaphrosaur found in Victoria, Australia, after it was misidentified as belonging to a pterosaur.

The shape of the structures resemble that of complex carbon molecules known as "fullerenes," which were one of the first nanoparticles discovered by scientists.

Bones from a fossil rich site at Tanque Loma in Ecuador offers clues to how a group of 22 plus giant sloths met their end 18,000 years ago.

A new Spinosaurus skeleton proves one of the largest dinosaur predators ever discovered lived a largely aquatic lifestyle, opening up a new understanding of dinosaur's place in the ancient world and overturning old dogmas.

Researchers reviewed a group of fossils from an area of the Moroccan Sahara, which includes a host of large dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodilians, and other animals.

A recently published paper describes some of the oldest plants and animals in Australia and Zealandia, aged between 40 and 230 million years old.

Scientists say the young Homo naledi was between 8-15 years old. Further research could determine whether the species was more ape-like or human-like in its maturation.

The extinct animal may reveal how modern birds survived the asteroid that wiped out large dinosaurs.

"[The discovery] shows that some of the big steps in evolution we thought were restricted to land animals actually first took place in fishes," said researcher John Long.

Researchers have found around 50 footprints at two sites on the island.

Information stored by a geologist's daughter contained data that helped determine the makers of a series of dinosaur tracks found on a cave ceiling in Australia.

The animal is one of the oldest tyrannosaur species ever discovered in North America.

"Thalattosaurs were among the first groups of land-dwelling reptiles to readapt to life in the ocean," Neil Kelley, an author of the study from Vanderbilt University, said in a statement.

The discovery provides new insights into hunting behavior of these 150 million-year-old flying reptiles

The shark was likely similar in size to great whites, which grow to an average of around 15 feet.

Computer simulations suggest Neanderthals were already on the brink of extinction and had been for hundreds of thousands of years when demographic fluctuations and inbreeding pushed them over the edge.

In theory, the ancient shark could have grown up to a staggering 22 feet in length, according to researchers.

New discoveries in Bavaria of an ape with "orangutan arms" but human-like legs has the science community excited about connecting the dots of evolution between great apes and humans.

A recently published study describes the fossilized remains of a surprising assemblage of creatures from the Late Jurassic period, including the skull and teeth fragments from a large pliosaurus.

The latest find is surprising because shark skeletons are made of cartilage—a rubbery tissue that doesn't preserve as well as bone.

The dinosaur could bite with about three times the force of large crocodiles or great white sharks.

Up until now, palaeontologists have faced a major problem when it comes to working out what these ancient hominids would have looked like. Now, using DNA methylation, scientists have been able to bring them back to life.

"The new species is one of the largest fossil penguins described so far and one of the very few giant penguins," said researcher Gerald Mayr.

The parrot may have grown to just over 1 meter (3.3 feet) in height and weighed around 15 pounds, according to researchers.

The origin of avian flight has long-puzzled scientists.

The Neanderthal tooth was found alongside a cave bear bone that may have been carved for a symbolic purpose.

Finding well-preserved dinosaur soft tissue is a rare occurrence.

Peregocetus pacificus was unearthed in marine sediments on the coast of Peru.

The fossils are 15 million years older than any others belonging to the tyrannosauroid family that have been found in North America.