Paleontogly

The unusual frilled shark is thought about a “living fossil,” as its makeup has actually remained the same for 80 million years. This summer season, scientists discovered one alive and growing off the coast of Portugal, adding evidence concerning the strength of this ancient sea creature.The shark was discovered off …

A group of paleontologists from the University of Portsmouth has discovered two new species of mammals that lived 145 million years ago in what is now Dorset county, southern England. Artist’s impression of a lagoon at dusk with Durlstodon ensomi (left foreground), Durlstotherium newmani (right and center foreground) and the …

A new large species of giraffid being named Decennatherium rex has been discovered by Dr. Maria Rios from the National Museum of Natural History of Spain and co-authors. Reconstruction of the head of an adult female Decennatherium rex. Image credit: Oscar Sanisidro / Anja Cocoparisienne / Sci-News.com. Decennatherium rex lived …

A new species of rhabdodontid dinosaur, named Matheronodon provincialis, has been discovered in southern France. Artist’s impression of Matheronodon provincialis. Image credit: Lukas Panzarin. Matheronodon provincialis was a primitive cousin of the well-known European dinosaur Iguanodon. The ancient beast lived 70 million years ago (Late Cretaceous epoch) and was approximately …

According to a new study released this week, a fossil found in the Indian state of Gujarat represents the first nearly complete skeleton of an ichthyosaur from India and the first record from the Jurassic of this country. Ichthyosaurs. Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov / CC BY 3.0. Ichthyosaurs were predatory …

University of Bristol paleontologists and natural history artist Robert Nicholls have revealed how Sinosauropteryx prima — a small theropod dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago (Early Cretaceous epoch) in what is now China — used its color patterning, including a bandit mask-like stripe across its eyes and a …

Footprints of a previously unknown, very large carnivorous dinosaur have been found on an ancient land surface — known as a palaeosurface — in the Maseru District of Lesotho, Africa. Dr. Knoll lies next to the exceptionally large carnivorous dinosaur footprints found in Lesotho. Image credit: Fabien Knoll. The newly-discovered …

Massive, exceptionally well-preserved cladoxylopsid tree trunks found in Xinjiang, China, have revealed an interconnected web of woody strands (xylem) within the trunk of the tree that is much more complex than that of the living trees. Xinicaulis lignescens. The largest silicified trunk in the field, with a maximum diameter of …

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An international team of paleontologists from the United States, Sweden, and Japan has retrieved original pigment, beta-keratin and muscle proteins from a hatchling of Tasbacka danica, a species of sea turtle that lived during the Eocene epoch. Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the study provides direct evidence that a …