Paleontology News

Posted March 2, 2011:

• Peanut Worms Are Annelids

Posted March 1, 2011:

• Rare 89-Million-Year-Old Flying Reptile Fossil from Texas May Be World's Oldest Pteranodon

Posted February 24, 2011:

• Ancient Catastrophic Drought Leads to Question: How Severe Can Climate Change Become?

Posted February 23, 2011:

• 'Thunder-Thighs' Dinosaur Discovered: Brontomerus May Have Used Powerful Thigh Muscles to Kick Predators

Posted February 22, 2011:

• T. Rex More Hyena Than Lion: Tyrannosaurus Rex Was Opportunistic Feeder, Not Top Predator, Paleontologists Say

Posted February 20, 2011:

• Archaeologist Models Past and Future Landscapes

Posted February 14, 2011:

• Earliest Humans Not So Different from Us, Research Suggests

Posted February 11, 2011:

• 3-D Digital Dinosaur Track Download: A Roadmap for Saving at-Risk Natural History Resources

Posted February 10, 2011:

• New View of Human Evolution? 3.2 Million-Year-Old Fossil Foot Bone Supports Humanlike Bipedalism in Lucy's Species
• Foot Bone Suggests Lucy's Kin Had Arched Foot, for Walking
• Vietnam’s Biodiversity Has Deep Roots in Earth’s Past

Posted February 9, 2011:

• Powerful Microscope Reveals Chemical Structure of Fossils

Posted February 7, 2011:

• X-Rays Reveal Hidden Leg of an Ancient Snake: New Hints on How Snakes Were Getting Legless
• Unexpected Exoskeleton Remnants Found in Paleozoic Fossils

Posted February 3, 2011:

• Secrets of Dinosaur Footprints Revealed, Thanks to 'Goldilocks'

Posted February 2, 2011:

• Mini or Massive? For Turtles and Tortoises, It All Depends on Where You Live

Posted January 31, 2011:

• Newly Discovered Dinosaur Likely Father of Triceratops

Posted January 27, 2011:

• Dinosaurs Survived Mass Extinction by 700,000 Years, Fossil Find Suggests
• Mass Extinction Linked to Ancient Climate Change, New Details Reveal

Posted January 26, 2011:

• Genetic Archaeology Finds Parts of Human Genome More Closely Related to Orangutans Than Chimps
• No Leftovers for Tyrannosaurus Rex: New Evidence That T. Rex Was Hunter, Not Scavenger

Posted January 24, 2011:

• First Single-Fingered Dinosaur Discovered
• Academic Unearths Mystery Behind Ice Age Fossils in 'Once in a Life-Time Discovery'

Posted January 20, 2011:

• How to Tell a Pterodactyl's Sex: Dino-Era Riddle Solved by New Fossil Find

Posted January 14, 2011:

• Putting the Dead to Work: Conservation Paleobiologists Dig Deep to Solve Today's Ecological, Evolutionary Questions

Posted January 13, 2011:

• New Predator 'Dawn Runner' Discovered in Early Dinosaur Graveyard
• Earth's Hot Past Could Be Prologue to Future Climate
• New Evidence for Climate Impacts on Ancient Societies

Posted January 11, 2011:

• Longevity Unlikely to Have Factored Into the Extinction of Neanderthals

Posted January 10, 2011:

• Hard-to-Find Fish Reveals Shared Developmental Toolbox of Evolution
• Oxygen-Free Early Oceans Likely Delayed Rise of Life on Planet
• New Species of Ancient Flying Reptile Identified on British Columbia Coast
• Species Loss Tied to Ecosystem Collapse and Recovery

Posted January 7, 2011:

• Extinct Insect Completely Reconstructed in 3-D

Posted January 6, 2011:

• Ammonites' Last Meal: New Light on Past Marine Food Chains

Posted January 5, 2011:

• Widespread, Persistent Oxygen-Poor Conditions in Earth's Ancient Oceans Impacted Early Evolution of Animals

Posted January 3, 2011:

• Not So Bird-Brained: 3D X-Rays Piece Together the Evolution of Flight from Fossils

Posted December 30, 2010:

• Neandertals’ Extinction Not Caused by Deficient Diets, Tooth Analysis Shows
• What Triggers Mass Extinctions? Study Shows How Invasive Species Stop New Life

Posted December 23, 2010:

• Back to the Dead Sea: Climate Change Study Digs Into Half a Million Years of History

Posted December 22, 2010:

• Fossil Finger Bone Yields Genome of a Previously Unknown Human Relative
• New Fossil Site in China Shows Long Recovery of Life from the Largest Extinction in Earth's History

Posted December 21, 2010:

• Africa Has Two Elephant Species, Genetic Analysis Confirms
• Being Good Moms Couldn't Save the Woolly Mammoth
• Rodents Were Diverse and Abundant in Prehistoric Africa When Our Human Ancestors Evolved

Posted December 20, 2010:

• Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Not So Carnivorous After All

Posted December 19, 2010:

• Three Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils Deciphered

Posted December 16, 2010:

• Colossal Fossil: Museum's New Whale Skeleton Represents Decades of Research

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