Researchers show that the size of a brain structure preserved in fossil skulls can reveal how well extinct mammals could smell. www.thebrighterside.news/post/fossil-... #fossils #paleontology

After decades of speculation, 2025 delivered some of the most credible advances yet in the search for life beyond Earth. www.iflscience.com/2025-was-the... #fossils #paleontology

In 1924, a child-sized fossil skull helped establish Africa as the cradle of humanity. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

New research in sea anemones sheds light on the origins of animal cell diversity. phys.org/news/2025-12... #fossils #paleontology

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was. www.sciencealert.com/ancient-dna-... #fossils #paleontology

How dinosaurs raised their young may have transformed life in the Mesozoic. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Learn how researchers discovered what may be the oldest Palaeoloxodon antiquus—a prehistoric elephant—tracks in Europe. www.discovermagazine.com/prehistoric-... #fossils #paleontology

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

Evolution favored some ants that abandoned individual protection in favor of larger, more coordinated colonies. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

In 2025, dinosaur discoveries surged, delivering some of the most notable finds in years. www.independent.co.uk/news/science... #fossils #paleontology

Some of the victims at Pompeii were wearing woolen cloaks when they died, even though it was August, new research finds. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

New research challenges the classification of the Little Foot fossil as Australopithecus prometheus. www.sci.news/otherscience... #fossils #paleontology

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 to 3 million years ago, revealing insights about both the animals and their environments. phys.org/news/2025-12... #fossils #paleontology

We’re in a golden era for dinosaur science. From head-butting dinosaurs to punk-armoured giants, 2025 delivered one of the most revealing years in dinosaur discovery yet. theconversation.com/the-best-din... #fossils #paleontology

Ancient DNA reveals the social and genetic makeup of a Protoapennine group that lived in southern Italy 3,500 years ago. phys.org/news/2025-12... #fossils #paleontology

More than a dozen mummies of kids with facial tattoos were found at an archaeological site in Christian-era Nubia. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human migrants out of Africa actually looked like. www.discovermagazine.com/what-a-1-5-m... #fossils #paleontology

New research by paleontologists shows that mammals' mode of hearing evolved much earlier than previously thought. news.uchicago.edu/story/fossil... #fossils #paleontology

Italian bears softened by centuries of Human proximity: In a hotbed of culture, the animals evolved to be less aggressive. nautil.us/italian-bear... #fossils #paleontology

A new genus and species of nimravid from the middle Oligocene epoch has been identified from the fossilized remains found in northern China. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Tens of millions of years before the megalodon, a massive shark was running the oceans, according to new research. www.vice.com/en/article/a... #fossils #paleontology

A team of Chinese scientists has announced the discovery of a new fossil lungfish species in Southwest China's Yunnan province, offering important insights into a crucial phase of early vertebrate evolution. www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202512/17/... #fossils #paleontology

Dinosaur footprints discovered by chance in the Italian Alps — covering a near-vertical rock face and dating back 210m years — offer new insights into prehistoric herd behaviour. www.thetimes.com/world/europe... #fossils #paleontology

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind discovery. www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci... #fossils #paleontology

Five millennia ago, ancient fishers buried a dog alongside a dagger in a lake bed. Archaeologists are trying to figure out why. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

A new fossil trackway records the fastest-running theropod yet known from the Cretaceous. www.iflscience.com/fastest-cret... #fossils #paleontology

Study of molting patterns in fossilized colored feathers suggests evolution of dinosaurs and birds was 'more complex than previously believed,' says ornithologist. www.timesofisrael.com/new-israeli-... #fossils #paleontology

New research shows stone tool production in the Central African rainforest remained remarkably consistent for a period of more than 5,000 years. www.discovermagazine.com/stone-age-to... #fossils #paleontology

Remains previously thought to belong to miniature armoured dinosaurs are actually baby ankylosaurs, offering scientists new insight into how these remarkable dinosaurs developed. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new... #fossils #paleontology

New findings add an unexpected branch to the already tangled story of early human ancestry. www.iflscience.com/unidentified... #fossils #paleontology

New Pteros website just dropped! pteros.com

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas. www.newscientist.com/article/2508... #fossils #paleontology

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History says it will display a rare and “remarkable” dinosaur skull that was unearthed in South Dakota. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... #fossils #paleontology

Around 6,200 years ago, a teenage boy survived a brutal lion attack in what is now Bulgaria — although deep holes in the youngster's skull suggest his brain was badly damaged, a new study finds. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

Microscopic feather traces reveal that a 9,000-year-old European shaman was buried in an elaborate headdress. phys.org/news/2025-12... #fossils #paleontology

Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first and only de-extinction company”, generated a lot of headlines this year. The hype, however, bore little relation to reality. www.newscientist.com/article/2505... #fossils #paleontology

Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong along with two new woylie subspecies—remarkable finds made bittersweet by signs that some may already be extinct. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancient humans to light fires some 400,000 years ago www.newscientist.com/article/2507... #fossils #paleontology

Mosasaurs, giant marine reptiles that existed more than 66 million years ago, lived not only in the sea but also in rivers, according to new research. phys.org/news/2025-12... #fossils #paleontology

Colorful warblers owe part of their palette to ancient gene-sharing, exposing hidden detours in avian evolutionary history. phys.org/news/2025-12... #fossils #paleontology

Researchers studying Denisovan ancestry within East Asian populations found an anomaly in the lineage of the Jomon people. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a695... #fossils #paleontology

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of animal disease in a Late Carboniferous swamp. phys.org/news/2025-12... #fossils #paleontology

A fossil jackpot in Qatar reveals a tiny ancient sea cow that shaped Gulf seagrass ecosystems 21 million years before today’s dugongs took over. phys.org/news/2025-12... #fossils #paleontology

Ancient Mallorca tracks suggest mammals’ upright posture originated in the earliest therapsids over 270 million years ago. www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/... #fossils #paleontology

Fossils of an 80-Myr croc reveal dyrosaurids started diversifying much earlier than thought. www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim... #fossils #paleontology

New fossil pigments hint sauropods may have sported unexpectedly vivid colors. www.newscientist.com/article/2507... #fossils #paleontology

Genome data reveals a surprise: Europe’s house cats trace back to African wildcats that arrived only 2,000 years ago. phys.org/news/2025-11... #fossils #paleontology

Learn about the ancient story of Pecos River rock murals in Texas and Mexico, representing the Mesoamerican worldview through symbolic paintings. www.discovermagazine.com/6-000-year-o... #fossils #paleontology

Reassessment of Brazilian fossils confirms two distinct coelurosaurs coexisted 112 million years ago. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology