Computer simulations suggest smaller sauropods could rear up on their hind legs with ease, a feeding and defense strategy that became harder as they grew larger. (Image credit: Guilherme Gehr) www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

A new study shows the bow and arrow spread rapidly across western North America about 1,400 years ago, largely replacing older hunting weapons. (Image credit: David Hiser/Environmental Protection Agency) phys.org/news/2026-03... #fossils #paleontology

New research reveals how “living fossils” like Nautilus and Allonautilus survive in deep, nutrient-poor oceans after more than 500 million years of evolution. (Image credit: Peter Ward/University of Washington) www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #fossils #paleontology

Researchers extracted DNA from a Neanderthal bone fragment found in Russia's Denisova Cave, and the genome is shedding light on how small and isolated their groups were. (Image credit: Diyendo Massilani.) www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

A 120,000-year-old site in Germany shows Neanderthals hunted giant elephants, providing the first clear evidence of such megafauna kills. www.popsci.com/science/nean... #fossils #paleontology

How did ancient fish perceive their environment in the deep-sea? An international team reveals that some coelacanths – fish living 240 million years ago – used their lung to detect sounds underwater. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #fossils #paleontology

It turns out that we might actually be only 80 percent “human”, as around a fifth of our DNA seems to have been donated to us by a mysterious hominin that diverged from our own lineage more than a million years ago. www.iflscience.com/prehistoric-... #fossils #paleontology

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our modern ape ancestors. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... #fossils #paleontology

A 35-million-year-old amber fossil reveals Balticolasma wunderlichi, an exotic arachnid group once present in Europe but now found only in distant regions. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #fossils #paleontology

A paleontologist has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have never been found in Central Texas before — and he came across the bones while snorkeling for fossils in an underground stream. www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2026/03... #fossils #paleontology

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have contributed to their eventual extinction. www.newscientist.com/article/2520... #fossils #paleontology

A new study challenges the idea that high oxygen levels drove giant insects 300 million years ago, suggesting other factors shaped their massive size. phys.org/news/2026-03... #fossils #paleontology

A million-year-old cave find shows New Zealand’s wildlife was already being reinvented by volcanoes and climate chaos—long before humans arrived. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Turtles that fed on hard-shelled prey were far more likely to survive the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, revealing how diet shaped survival after the dinosaurs’ extinction. phys.org/news/2026-03... #fossils #paleontology

New research suggests Homo erectus mothers weaned infants early and relied on cooperative care, hinting that shared parenting deepened early in human evolution. www.iflscience.com/what-was-mot... #fossils #paleontology

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/s... #fossils #paleontology

Scientists have uncovered a new species of rhinoceros in the Canadian High Arctic, revealing that rhinos once lived far farther north than expected. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Learn more about the ancient life that used to inhabit Mammoth Cave, and how the cave conditions were just right to help preserve some of these remains. www.discovermagazine.com/mammoth-cave... #fossils #paleontology

CT scans reveal Cistecynodon parvus was a distinct and more primitive species than previously thought, resolving a decades-old identity debate. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Fossil trackways in Switzerland reveal a rich record of ancient reptiles and early dinosaurs, showing how footprints—not bones—can capture the behavior of animals that lived over 200 million years ago. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-od... #fossils #paleontology

A new perspective, sparked by studies of pterosaurs, argues that documenting fossils and anatomy is essential science in paleontology—even without testing formal hypotheses. archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/i... #fossils #paleontology

A six-meter-long sea monster with powerful jaws is the latest prehistoric creature found among the fossil deposits of northern Mexico. english.elpais.com/science-tech... #fossils #paleontology

Gooey birch tar helped our distant cousins, Neanderthals, make weapons and possibly treat wounds. www.popsci.com/health/neand... #fossils #paleontology

How much did Neanderthal homes differ to human ones? Perhaps not as much as you might think. www.iflscience.com/how-our-ance... #fossils #paleontology

An interdisciplinary study of ancient DNA and archaeology reveals how early farmers in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley adapted to agriculture and endured centuries of environmental and social stress. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years. www.scientificamerican.com/article/when... #fossils #paleontology

The fossilised remains of a giant burrowing bat that lived in New Zealand millions of years ago have been found by an international team of scientists. news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2018/01... #fossils #paleontology

A newly discovered Triassic reptile from the UK looked more like a racing greyhound than a crocodile, built for speed on land. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Neuroscientists uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can’t? ecomagazine.com/news/researc... #fossils #paleontology

Archaeologists have unearthed a Celtic cemetery in France that holds 18 unusual seated burials. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

A new study analysing two fossilized whale skulls from around 5 million years ago has revealed fragments of sharks’ teeth lodged inside them. www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2026-03... #fossils #paleontology

Some feathered dinosaurs may have briefly taken to the skies—only to give it up later. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Korea’s first discovered partial dinosaur skull comes from a new species that bears a delightful resemblance to a beloved cartoon character, Dooly, making the choice of name Doolysaurus an easy pick for the paleontologists. www.iflscience.com/newly-discov... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have described a new species of enigmatic cyclidan crustacean on the basis of three well-preserved specimens from the Early Triassic Guiyang biota of China. sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Ancient DNA reveals that Doggerland once hosted temperate forests and large mammals during the Ice Age, making it a rich habitat for early humans long before it was submerged. www.livescience.com/planet-earth... #fossils #paleontology

A 20-million-year-old vertebra found in Portugal marks the country’s first known fossil of a giant tuna, revealing large ocean predators once swam its ancient seas. www.theportugalnews.com/news/2026-03... #fossils #paleontology

Learn how a life-sized nest experiment revealed that Cretaceous oviraptor dinosaurs in China may have relied on both body heat and sunlight to incubate their eggs. www.discovermagazine.com/oviraptors-m... #fossils #paleontology

Ancient DNA from Arctic sediments shows that Ice Age megafauna like woolly mammoth and bison thrived even after a massive volcanic eruption blanketed their habitat in ash 29,000 years ago. phys.org/news/2026-03... #fossils #paleontology

A new study argues that diseases may distort how scientists estimate age from ancient skeletons, proposing a new way to separate normal aging from illness in paleopathology. phys.org/news/2026-03... #fossils #paleontology

When elephants roamed Europe, Neanderthals ran a complex “fat factory,” systematically hunting and processing the giant animals for food. www.iflscience.com/ancient-elep... #fossils #paleontology

Ancient Martian dunes hint that underground water—and possibly life-friendly habitats—lingered long after Mars appeared to dry out. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

New research suggests life recovered far faster than once thought after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Brazilian scientists have identified a new giant dinosaur linked to a species in Spain, suggesting land routes once connected South America, Africa and Europe about 120 million years ago. www.reuters.com/science/dino... #fossils #paleontology

Research on modern crocodiles shows they can form multiple growth rings in a single year, raising doubts about how accurately scientists estimate the age of dinosaurs. phys.org/news/2026-03... #fossils #paleontology

Fossil jaws of the ancient monkey Stirtonia victoriae suggest early howler monkeys adapted to leaf-eating about 13 million years ago. sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Ancient DNA shows that Domestic dog began diversifying more than 11,000 years ago, long before the modern breeds we know today. www.discovermagazine.com/ancient-dogs... #fossils #paleontology

A fossil of the marine reptile Polycotylus from Alabama bears a giant tooth from the predatory fish Xiphactinus, revealing a violent clash between Cretaceous sea predators. phys.org/news/2026-03... #fossils #paleontology

Tourists in Argentina discovered the fossilized femur of Megatherium, a giant sloth that roamed South America hundreds of thousands of years ago. noticiasambientales.com/science/how-... #fossils #paleontology

Simulations of Australopithecus hominins’ anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have exerted tremendous pressure on their pelvic floors, putting them at risk of tearing. www.newscientist.com/article/2519... #fossils #paleontology

A new study shows that the vertebrae of Ichthyosaurs fetuses can reveal how close they were to birth, offering rare insight into reproduction in long-extinct marine reptiles. www.sciencenorway.no/evolution-pa... #fossils #paleontology