Paleontogly

There’s still a lot that we have no idea about dinosaurs, but researchers have actually simply made an exciting announcement that gives us a clearer picture of what these remarkable beasts resembled when they strolled the Earth countless years ago: Prominent paleontologists from all over the world have collectively consented …

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An international team of paleontologists from the United States, Australia and Tanzania has discovered a new species of hyaenodont that lived 25 million years ago during the Oligocene epoch, in what is now the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. Artist’s reconstruction of Pakakali rukwaensis. Image credit: NSF / Ohio University. The …

A new species of marine reptile that lived about 163 million years ago (Middle Jurassic epoch) has been identified from a fossil found near Melksham, Wiltshire, England. Ieldraan melkshamensis — nicknamed the Melksham Monster after the town where it was unearthed — closely resembled the species shown in this artist’s …

A team of paleontologists in the UK has identified the smallest and youngest specimen of the ichthyosaur Ichthyosaurus communis on record, and found the remains of a prehistoric squid within its stomach. Reconstruction of a newborn Ichthyosaurus communis. Image credit: Julian Kiely. The ichthyosaur fossil has a total length of …

Exceptionally well-preserved trilobite fossils from the Cambrian Wulongqing Formation near Guangwei Village in southern Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province of China, contradict previous assumptions about trilobite digestive systems. Palaeolenus lantenoisi showing evidence of crop, digestive glands, alimentary canal along thorax, and excreted waste posterior to pygidium. Scale bar …

The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction — an event 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs and was triggered by a massive asteroid that slammed into Earth — led to acceleration in the rate of genetic evolution among its avian survivors, and these survivors were much smaller than their pre-extinction …

Stalking the mountains at the roofing system of the world, the enigmatic snow leopard has just had a stay of execution. The International Union for the Preservation of Nature, which examines wildlife as to how great or bad they are faring, has actually simply revealed that the huge cats are …

Temnospondyls — a diverse group of extinct small-to-giant amphibians that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic periods — had a full array of teeth, large fangs and thousands of tiny hook-like structures called denticles on the roofs of their mouths, according to new research published in the journal …

In a paper published in the journal Systematic Entomology, researchers described an unusual species of prehistoric trap-jaw ant found in several pieces of Burmese amber (known as burmite). Photomicrographs of Linguamyrmex vladi. Scale bars – 0.5 mm. Image credit: Barden et al, doi: 10.1111/syen.12253. The new species is named Linguamyrmex …