A rare fossil from Taiwan has captured a 1-million-year-old snail giving birth—only the second known evidence of live-bearing in ancient snails. www.iflscience.com/snail-fossil... #fossils #paleontology

A 120-million-year-old pterosaur fossil offers the first direct evidence that some flying reptiles ate plants, after researchers found microscopic plant fossils preserved in its stomach. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Woolly mammoths weren’t just Ice Age giants—they shaped ecosystems, left frozen clues, and may yet walk again through science. tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #fossils #paleontology

A dinosaur fossil discovery by a researcher may expand the known range of a species that roamed Earth approximately 115 million years ago. phys.org/news/2025-11... #fossils #paleontology

A new study has unexpectedly discovered that a common parasite of modern oysters actually started infecting bivalves hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs went extinct. phys.org/news/2025-11... #fossils #paleontology

Researchers have named an ancient fossil that was discovered at a park in Leicestershire. www.bbc.com/news/article... #fossils #paleontology

A rare 115-million-year-old dinosaur fossil has revealed the first-ever ankylosaur hatchling. indiandefencereview.com/first-ever-b... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have described a new species of the tortoise genus Manouria based on the fossilized remains found in the Czech Republic. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

A fossil braincase and partial skull roof from Carnegie Museum of Natural History has been reassessed and reclassified, giving rise to a new genus and species of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur: Athenar bermani. sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

A recently published study suggests humans’ creative inclinations go back much further than previously thought. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r... #fossils #paleontology

New research out of Northern Ireland reveals there may be a distinct clue to determine the actual gender of dinosaurs. www.deseret.com/u-s-world/20... #fossils #paleontology

A teenager's remains indicate an Iron Age Briton tribe practiced human sacrifice. www.popsci.com/science/celt... #fossils #paleontology

Strange glassy blobs strewn across the Australian desert are evidence of an ancient meteorite impact that scientists hadn't noticed until now. www.sciencealert.com/strange-glas... #fossils #paleontology

The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. www.bbc.com/news/article... #fossils #paleontology

Human skulls evolved twice as fast as those of other apes, driven by powerful cognitive and social forces that shaped our brains and faces. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Scientists have discovered Stone Age "crayons" in Crimea, hinting that Neanderthals may have used them for symbolic drawings or markings. But not everyone agrees. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

Ancient proteins extracted from 2-million-year-old Paranthropus teeth reveal hidden genetic differences — suggesting our big-jawed cousin may have been more than one species. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Volcanic winters 201 million years ago wiped out most life on Earth — clearing the way for dinosaurs to rise. estoyenlafrontera.com/en/volcanic-... #fossils #paleontology

Forgotten for over a century, dozens of coelacanth fossils hidden in British museums reveal that these ancient “living fossils” once thrived in tropical seas 200 million years ago. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of this species than we thought. www.newscientist.com/article/2502... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have identified the 410-million-year-old specimens of Spongiophyton nanum from the Ponta Grossa Formation in the Paraná Basin of Brazil as one of the oldest and most widespread lichens from the fossil record. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

After decades of fierce debate, researchers say fossils once thought to be juvenile T. rex actually belong to a separate, sleeker species of tyrannosaur. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... #fossils #paleontology

An international, multi-university research team has unearthed a crucial new piece of the puzzle in the evolution of sharks. news.columbusstate.edu/posts/discov... #fossils #paleontology

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a691... #fossils #paleontology

A 99-million-year-old mosquito larva preserved in amber sheds light on the insect’s ancient evolution. sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Neanderthals left handprints and geometric art in deep caves over 64,000 years ago, long before modern humans appeared. theconversation.com/were-neander... #fossils #paleontology

Discovery challenges the long-standing view of Homo habilis as the first skilled toolmaker. www.independent.co.uk/news/science... #fossils #paleontology

Prehistoric babies probably looked like their parents, shedding light on facial development in early humans. www.iflscience.com/rare-2-milli... #fossils #paleontology

A newly discovered species of Arctic rhino lived 23 million years ago. www.popsci.com/environment/... #fossils #paleontology

Gene variants in red blood cell function may have doomed the hybrid babies of Neanderthals and modern humans. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists in China have described a new species of the coelacanth genus Whiteia on the basis of two fossilized specimens. sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the fingers. phys.org/news/2025-10... #fossils #paleontology

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

Fossilized leg bones beneath Egypt’s Western Desert prove whales once walked. www.leravi.org/ancient-whal... #fossils #paleontology

In the Egyptian Western Desert, paleontologists have uncovered a fossil that fundamentally reshapes our understanding of crocodile evolution. phys.org/news/2025-10... #fossils #paleontology

A boy walking his dog in South Africa unknowingly stumbled across the remains of a nearly 2 million-year-old couple that is now believed to fill an integral gap in our understanding of human evolution. allthatsinteresting.com/australopith... #fossils #paleontology

Rediscovered after three decades and once thought to be extinct, the elusive Subalpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys istapantap) has been captured on photo and video for the first time in New Guinea’s mist-shrouded mountains. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Learn more about two exceptional specimens of Edmontosaurus annectens, a duck-billed dinosaur from the end of the Cretaceous, recently examined by paleontologists. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Scientists are using DNA from sediments to learn more about past environments, including new revelations about the woolly mammoth. www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #fossils #paleontology

Argentine paleontologists found a real diamond in the rough after happening across a perfectly preserved 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg during an excavation. nypost.com/2025/10/23/s... #fossils #paleontology

World’s longest woolly rhino horn found in melting Siberian permafrost offers fresh clues to Ice Age life. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... #fossils #paleontology

New study finds that some South American sauropods could easily rear up on two legs, using powerful femurs to feed higher, fend off predators, and even impress mates. phys.org/news/2025-10... #fossils #paleontology

A new study has revealed the exceptionally preserved skin, spikes and hooves of Wyoming’s famous duck-billed dinosaur ‘mummies’ aren’t fossilised flesh, but rather clay moulds formed by microorganisms during decay. www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/du... #fossils #paleontology

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... #fossils #paleontology

Fragments of the hellish, lava-covered "proto-planet" that existed before Earth 4.5 billion years ago have survived unaltered in ancient rocks, groundbreaking new research reveals. www.livescience.com/planet-earth... #fossils #paleontology

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil Java Man is being repatriated to Indonesia, along with 28,000 other fossils. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... #fossils #paleontology

New Zealand’s ancient bowerbird was smaller and more slender than the species living in Australia and New Guinea today. theconversation.com/a-tiny-fossi... #fossils #paleontology

Scientists analyzing 1,300-year-old human feces from the Cave of the Dead Children in Mexico have discovered that people often dealt with nasty intestinal infections more than a millennium ago. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. www.sciencenews.org/article/bone... #fossils #paleontology

Modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but not through war or murder alone. www.newscientist.com/article/2500... #fossils #paleontology