Paleontology News

A 90-million-year-old fossil of an unknown species of crocodile that inhabited Brazil's southeast region in unusual environmental conditions has been unveiled by researchers in Rio de Janeiro.

JURASSIC Park brought dinosaurs to life on the big screen in the 1990s. Now Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular is doing it for a new generation of amazed youngsters.

Fossil diatom algae of Cretaceous age from the Alpha Ridge of the Arctic Ocean. The image shows still partly connected cells of a colonial diatom of the genus Hemiaulus, individually only 25 microns across, together with other fragments.

An international team of researchers has studied the coralline algae fossils that lived on the last coral reefs of the Mediterranean Sea between 7.24 and 5.3 million years ago.

Earth's landmasses in the late Precambrian probably weren't pleasant, but at least they were green.

Fossils found in Brazil are from a crocodile resembling a large armadillo that was a predator in the area around modern-day Sao Paulo state 90 million years ago, researchers said on Tuesday.

The secret to mega-dinosaurs' impressive sizes may be that the reptiles used more of their energy for growing and less for keeping their bodies warm compared with some creatures.

The first fish-like animals to squirm out of the sea and onto land were pretty wild looking, new research concludes.

Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may have a more complex prehistoric past.

Paleontologists Sunday announced that they found an eight-million-year-old fossilised remains of an elephant, a hippo and a giant ostrich in western Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates .

Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta has the antidote to boredom with a special "90 Days of Dinosaurs" exhibit.

The two plant-eating and one carnivore dinosaurs, the first large dinosaurs unearthed since 1981, were found in Queensland and date back 98 million years to the mid-Cretaceous period.

LIKE the swagman, they met their end in a billabong. The predator, nicknamed Banjo, was Australia's answer to velociraptor - a fierce, meat-eating dinosaur with three large slashing claws on each hand.

The pair of fighting dinosaurs tumbled across the sidewalk in front of me, bringing me to an abrupt halt. Screeching, flipping tail over talon, grasping at each other with their sharp, three-toed hind feet and stabbing at each other with their mouths, they didn’t even pause when they rolled over a vertical drop twice their own body length.

The extremely well-preserved remains of a 66-million-year-old hadrosaur, known as a "dinosaur mummy," have just yielded soft-tissue skin structures and organic molecules, according to a new study.

Tony sez, "Recently, a group of paleontologists were in town for the North American Paleontological Convention at the University of Cincinnati, and decided to take a field trip to the Creation Museum just across the river, in Kentucky.

Three new species of Australian dinosaur have been discovered in a prehistoric billabong in western Queensland.

I will make a few comments about the Associated Press article "Scientists study foes' ways at Creation Museum" in the Times-News, June 25.

A mummified dinosaur unearthed in North Dakota may contain traces of 66-million-year old organic material, which could provide vital information about its evolution.

Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes - known as anthropoids - evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday.