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Life-size model of Edenopteron keithcrooki built by Baz Crook (Australian National University)

Scientists Describe Giant Prehistoric Fish

Mar 12, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the Australian National University have described a new species of ancient fish, after unearthing the largest fossilized lobe-finned...

33,000-year-old skull of one of the oldest known domestic dogs (Nikolai Ovodov et al., 2011)

DNA Analysis Confirms 33K-Year-Old Fossil Belonged to Modern Dog Ancestor

Mar 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Analysis of DNA extracted from a fossil tooth found in 1975 in a cave called Razboinichya in southern Siberia, Russia, confirms that the tooth belonged...

Illustration of the High Arctic camel on Ellesmere Island during the Pliocene warm period, about 3.5 million years ago (© Julius Csotonyi)

Giant Camels Once Roamed Canada’s High Arctic, Paleontologists Say

Mar 6, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A group of paleontologists has announced the discovery of fossilized remains of an extinct giant camel that lived in what is now Canada about 3.5 million...

Life reconstruction of Culebrasuchus mesoamericanus, one of the two newly discovered prehistoric caimans, in its ancient near coastal environment during the early Miocene of Panama (Danielle Byerley / Florida Museum of Natural History)

Paleontologists Discover Two Prehistoric Caimans in Panama

Mar 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to U.S. paleontologists, the discovery of 19 million year old crocodilian fossils in Panama sheds new light on the history of interchange and...

Top: skeletal reconstruction of a new herbivorous dinosaur with known material shown in white. Bottom: dinosaur fossils with bite marks made by crocodyliforms (Boyd CA et al)

New Dinosaur Species was Lunch for Prehistoric Crocs

Mar 4, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, the University of Tennessee and North Carolina State University, have found the...

Outdated restoration of Helicoprion (© Staab Studios)

Paleontologists Solve Mysteries of Permian Whorl-Toothed Shark

Feb 28, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has solved some of the mysteries surrounding large spiral fossils of an ancient fish called Helicoprion. Outdated...

Dinosaur Milk?

Feb 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study by Prof Paul Else of the University of Wollongong, Australia, suggests dinosaurs may have produced a kind of milk for their offspring. “But...

An artist’s rendering of the hypothetical placental ancestor (by Carl Buell)

Common Ancestor of Placental Mammals Reconstructed

Feb 8, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A small, insect-eating animal was the common ancestor of placental mammals, an international team of researchers has reported in the journal Science (full...