An incomplete skeleton from Romania's Hațeg Basin has revealed a new genus and species of duck-billed dinosaur. Image credit: Tibor Pecsics. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have identified a previously unknown species of bear-dog from two specimens unearthed in Barcelona, Spain. Image credit: Jesús Gamarra. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have described a new genus and three new species of small, insect-eating marsupials from Early Miocene deposits at one of Australia's richest fossil sites. Image credit: Peter Schouten. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Millipedes may have been crawling across Earth's landscapes nearly 460 million years ago, long before vertebrates ventured onto land, a new study suggests. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Nearly 20 years after they were stolen, rare dinosaur fossils—including a 70-million-year-old relative of Tyrannosaurus rex—have been returned to Mongolia. www.popsci.com/science/stol... #fossils #paleontology

Palaeontologists say evidence pointing to Australia's polar past shows that many dinosaurs roamed the country when the south east was still within the Antarctic Circle. Image credit: Beth Zaiken www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... #fossils #paleontology

A spectacular fossil fish discovered on a remote New Zealand cliff nearly 30 years ago has finally revealed its story thanks to the rediscovery of the collector's field notebooks. Image: University of Otago www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Exhibitions in Devon and Lyme Regis are showcasing how paleoartists combine science and art to reconstruct dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Image credit: Lee Brown www.bbc.com/news/article... #fossils #paleontology

Scientists who recently piloted a submersible to a remote spot in the southeastern Indian Ocean have identified one of the largest and deepest whale graveyards containing hundreds of fossils. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/12/s... #fossils #paleontology

A trove of prehistoric squirrel poop packed with 700,000-year-old environmental DNA is helping scientists reconstruct a lost Yukon ecosystem teeming with plants, insects, microbes, and large mammals. Image: Scott Cocker www.popsci.com/science/foss... #fossils #paleontology

A dinosaur trackway containing around 200 footprints, discovered by a worker at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire four years ago, has been identified as one of the longest of its kind in the world. Image: Oxford University www.bbc.com/news/article... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologist Steve Brusatte's new book The Story of Birds traces how feathered dinosaurs survived an asteroid strike and evolved into the birds that fill today's skies. Image credit: JA CHIRINOS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY www.newscientist.com/article/mg27... #fossils #paleontology

Fossils from some of Earth’s earliest animals suggest cloning dominated Ediacaran seas, slowing evolution until environmental stress triggered a burst of biodiversity. Image credit: C.G. Kenchington. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

If the asteroid had missed Earth 66 million years ago, dinosaurs may have continued evolving and dominating the planet to this day. Image credit: Colin Anderson Productions www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/if... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have identified a new species of horned turtle from northern Patagonia that lived during the Maastrichtian, shortly before the asteroid impact that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs. Image credit: Nawel Vazquez www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

120,000-year-old fossils reveal that European fallow deer have lost much of their genetic diversity since the last interglacial period. Image credit: Juraj Lipták phys.org/news/2026-06... #fossils #paleontology

The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds. Image credit: Hugo Salais phys.org/news/2026-06... #fossils #paleontology

Palaeontologist Prof Steve Brusatte joins science correspondent Nicola Davis to trace the evolution of our feathered friends from their dinosaur origins. Image credit: Pascal Goetgheluck/ESRF/PA www.theguardian.com/environment/... #fossils #paleontology

A University of Michigan graduate student helped uncover the earliest known fossils of six modern fish groups that emerged after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Image credit: Hesham Sallam. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #fossils #paleontology

A new analysis of a 120-million-year-old fossil suggests at least one pterosaur species shimmered in iridescent greens and magentas. Image credit: Zhao Chuang www.sciencenews.org/article/pter... #fossils #paleontology

Ancient rock chemistry reveals marine environments were already deteriorating long before the end-Triassic mass extinction. Image credit: Peter Sawyer www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

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New evidence suggests animals can pass down inherited traits through epigenetic changes rather than DNA mutations. Image credit: Karmannye Chaudhary phys.org/news/2026-06... #fossils #paleontology

A new study on multiple genomes from the extinct cave lion has discovered that it represented a highly distinct evolutionary lineage, which separated from modern lions more than a million years ago. Image credit: Love Dalén. phys.org/news/2026-06... #fossils #paleontology

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary for the planet to become habitable. Image credit: NASA phys.org/news/2026-06... #fossils #paleontology

Fossil evidence from approximately 520-million-year-old rocks in China finally places bryozoans where they belong, at the heart of the Cambrian explosion. Image credit: Baopeng Song www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #fossils #paleontology

Even after 5,300 years in the ice, Ötzi the Iceman may still host active microbes, with some cold-loving species apparently surviving—and possibly reproducing—on his mummified body. image credit: Marion Lafogler www.sciencealert.com/scientists-f... #fossils #paleontology

Prehistoric bugs were monstrous and some were efficient predators - discover the most vicious and find out what they preyed upon. Image credit: Prehistorica CM, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-... #fossils #paleontology

The oldest-known hominin footprints are in danger of being destroyed by state-backed tourism and other economic activity, a new investigation claims. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... #fossils #paleontology

Ancestors of today's cattle were roaming the grasslands of Europe over four million years ago, reveals new research. Image credit: Mauricio Antón via SWNS talker.news/2026/06/04/f... #fossils #paleontology

A new microraptor from Cretaceous China likely preyed on ancient birds. Image credit: Illustration by Lewis LaRosa, colorized by Jão Canola. www.livescience.com/animals/dino... #fossils #paleontology

More than 5,300 years after Ötzi’s death, researchers found genetic material from his gut microbiome and identified yeasts that continue to exist despite the mummy being kept below freezing. www.scientificamerican.com/article/otzi... #fossils #paleontology

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Image credit: Ian Baylatry www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... #fossils #paleontology

Fossil fragments found in the U.K. have been identified as remains of the largest scorpions ever. Measuring more than a meter in length, Praearcturus gigas was among the first large predators to ever stalk the land. Image credit: Franz Anthony phys.org/news/2026-06... #fossils #paleontology

CT scans suggest the tiny but powerful arms of alvarezsauroid dinosaurs evolved for digging, supporting the idea that they fed on insects. Image credit: Zhixin Han. phys.org/news/2026-06... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have identified a new species of the axolotl genus Ambystoma from several fossilized specimens found deep in the rocky outcrops of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. Image credit: Diana Guzmán-Madrid www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago. Image credit: George H. Nash et al. www.scientificamerican.com/article/olde... #fossils #paleontology

DNA from museum specimens shows the Seychelles’ vanished crocodiles were not a unique species, but an isolated population of saltwater crocodiles that likely drifted across the Indian Ocean. Image credit: Shutterstock www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

New observatories and spacecraft missions are probing environments in our solar system that could potentially host life but have long remained hidden. Image credit: Jason Major, Cassini spacecraft/Flickr theconversation.com/scientists-u... #fossils #paleontology

For much of the past century, fossils from East Africa have shaped our understanding of ape evolution. Now, a jawbone found in the Egyptian desert adds a new dimension to that story. Image Credit: Professor Hesham Sallam thedebrief.org/a-single-jaw... #fossils #paleontology

Scientists have identified fossils of a giant crane, raven, and duck that offer a rare glimpse into southern Iberia 1.2 million years ago. Image credit: O. Sanisidro www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/05/f... #fossils #paleontology

Pinning down the largest sauropod dinosaur is no easy task, as these giants are often known only from fragmentary fossils that make their true size difficult to estimate. Image credit: dottedhippo via Getty Images www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... #fossils #paleontology

A newly described species of musk turtle from Florida appears to have led a rough life, with fossils bearing scars, bite marks, and even embedded predator teeth from encounters more than 5 million years ago. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/anci... #fossils #paleontology

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period. Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto www.discovermagazine.com/this-260-mil... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have recovered the fossilized remains of three hyaenodont species, including one previously unknown to science, from Miocene sediments in Pakistan. Image credit: Steven Jasinski / SergeyAtrox1 www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

A newly discovered raptor-like dinosaur from Patagonia is changing how scientists think about ancient predators. Credit: Gabriel Díaz Yantén www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Ancient proteins extracted from 400,000-year-old teeth suggest Homo erectus may have interbred with Denisovans, leaving traces of its genetic legacy in some people living today. phys.org/news/2026-05... #fossils #paleontology

A growing body of evidence suggests all animals, plants, and fungi may trace their origins back to a group of ancient microbes known as the “Asgard” archaea. Image Credit: Eric Isselee/Shutterstock.com www.iflscience.com/all-animals-... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of pan-shinisaur lizard from a partial upper jaw discovered in southern France, pushing the presence of its lineage in Europe back by at least 30 million years. Image: Olivier Jansen. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have identified a gigantic new species of mosasaur, Tylosaurus rex, that grew up to 13.2 meters long and had serrated teeth. Image credit: Alderon Games / Path of Titans. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology