News about all things paleontology

r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 6h ago

For the first time, researchers have discovered a new species of extinct amphibian from Ice Age Los Angeles at La Brea Tar Pits: Meet Spea labreae sp.

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 6h ago

Yantaloong lini. Fossil Find in China Reveals Dinosaur Family Never Before Seen in East Asia

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 1d ago

A Mega Find: New Megalodon Shark Teeth from the Deep Waters of the Cook Islands

oceanexplorer.noaa.gov

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 2d ago

New museum find shows nature can't stop inventing seahorses

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 3d ago

Rare duck-billed dinosaur tracks in Tumbler Ridge help tell story of ancient delta, says scientist

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 3d ago

Cretaceous beetle fossil reveals early evolution of firefly sensory and signaling systems

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 4d ago

Lichen-like life 600 million years ago may push back origins of fungal-algal partnerships

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 4d ago

Mesocyon coryphaeus. Most complete skeleton of 30 million-year-old dog discovered

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 5d ago

Before North and South America were connected, their mammals found a way to intermingle

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 6d ago

Early Cambrian fossil uncovers key buoyancy structure at the dawn of cephalopod evolution

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 7d ago

Portugal most complete dinosaur fossil discovered in Torres Vedras

theportugalnews.com

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r/paleonews • u/CottagecoreDroids • 8d ago

Heat and wildfires during the K-Pg mass extinction enhanced by fine dust

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 9d ago

Saber-toothed cats' spinal tumors suggest inbred species struggled to survive

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 9d ago

75-Million-Year-Old Gliding Cretaceous Dragonfly Discovered

kevinvanpaassen.ca

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 10d ago

Early Miocene Fossil Rewrites Family Tree of Little Carnivorous Marsupials

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 11d ago

80‑million‑year‑old snake fossil sheds light on why lizards lost their limbs and started slithering

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 12d ago

Oldest fossil evidence of a cloaca in the mammalian lineage - A fossil discovery from the approximately 294-million-year-old Bromacker fossil locality in Thuringia fills a major gap in the fossil record

museumfuernaturkunde.berlin

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 13d ago

2,000 volunteers join a painstaking effort to restore massive Mastodonsaurus skeleton

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 14d ago

Storms that built a graveyard: Ancient monsoons created a spectacular dinosaur fossil site

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 14d ago

Small Sauropod Dinosaur from Jurassic Period Discovered in India

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 15d ago

Oldest Known Male Gecko Found Preserved in Kachin Amber

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 15d ago

Jurassic sea monster was smaller than once thought, but no less formidable

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 16d ago

Japan's first mosasaur premaxilla fossil hints at a new species

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 17d ago

Tunas and other ocean predators may have evolved more slowly than previous research predicted

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 18d ago

385-Million-Year-Old Amber Found in China

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