Tag: Paleontologists

Among the most widely promoted examples of fossil folklore is a supposed link between the Central Asian horned dinosaur Protoceratops ...

The ‘Elgin Marvel’ fossil is a block of reddish sandstone containing a natural mould of a skull and jaw of ...

A new genus and species of unenlagiine dinosaur has been identified by paleontologists in Argentina. Named Diuqin lechiguanae, it fills ...

Kromdraai is a Plio-Pleistocene site located in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. It has produced diverse and abundant faunal ...

The fossil shark Ptychodus was first identified 190 years ago, but in the intervening centuries of paleontological inquiry, a comprehensive ...

A new genus and species of elasmosaurid — a type of plesiosaur with an extremely long, slender neck — has ...

Not all dolphins live in the salty ocean. While rare, some river dolphins live and eat in freshwater and are ...

At more than 50 cm (20 inches) in height, the remarkable new species Cyathophycus balori is the largest known member ...

Paleontologists have described ten new species of trilobites from the tuff-bearing Cambrian-Ordovician layers of Ko Tarutao island, Satun province, southernmost ...

False color scanning electron microscopy image of zebra finch feather showing the feather cortex (in blue) and melanosomes (melanin-rich granules, ...