1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (105+ words) Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what is now Colombia roughly 12 million years ago....

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (126+ words) A previously unrecognized species of the antthrush genus Chamaeza has been discovered in the isolated highland rainforests of northeastern Brazil....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (723+ words) New research led by University of Lethbridge scientists offers the most detailed look yet at how the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) -- the flightless bird driven to extinction by the 1600s -- actually perceived its world, suggesting the ‘stupid bird’ had a far more…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (134+ words) Archaeologists in southwestern Germany have unearthed two miniature bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory, among the smallest and most delicate examples of Ice Age art ever found....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (505+ words) Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new fossil honeybee species that fills a long-standing gap in the evolutionary record of the genus Apis. Fossil honeybees are exceedingly rare, and most known specimens come from Oligocene and Miocene deposits in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (909+ words) Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest snakes lived and complicating the long-running debate over whether their ancestors burrowed underground, swam in the sea or crawled the surface. Life…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (119+ words) Paleontologists in China have described a small, previously unknown Jurassic bird whose short tail offers new evidence for how the earliest birds traded their long, dinosaur-like tails for the compact tailbone that helps living birds fly....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (208+ words) Named Panthera pardus burgtonnae, the newly-identified leopard subspecies roamed Europe during the Eemian interglacial period and was far more heavily built than modern leopards....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (486+ words) New research from the University of Bristol suggests that pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight — probably displayed a much wider array of wing shapes and flying styles than fossil-based reconstructions have depicted. Pterosaurs thrived from about 210 to 65 million…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (36+ words) Paleontologists have described a new genus and three new species of small, insect-eating marsupials from the Early Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwestern Queensland, one of Australia’s richest fossil sites....