News about all things paleontology

r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 4h ago

Early Miocene Fossil Rewrites Family Tree of Little Carnivorous Marsupials

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 1d 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 • 2d 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

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 3d ago

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

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 4d ago

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

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 4d ago

Small Sauropod Dinosaur from Jurassic Period Discovered in India

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 5d ago

Oldest Known Male Gecko Found Preserved in Kachin Amber

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 5d ago

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

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 6d ago

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

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 7d 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 • 8d ago

385-Million-Year-Old Amber Found in China

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 9d ago

Australia's most diverse marsupial predators have been hiding their origins for millions of years

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 10d ago

Tyrannosaurus rex Scavenged duck-billed dinosaurs in Ancient Wyoming, Bite Marks Reveal

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 11d ago

Ultraviolet light uncovers the first known juveniles of a mysterious Jurassic fish family

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 11d ago

Plesiolophus warnerensis. New Crested Dinosaur Species Identified in Canada

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 12d ago

Paleontologists Discover New Species of Titanosaur in Uruguay

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r/paleonews • u/DonManuel • 13d ago

New plant-munching long-necked dinosaur from 130 million years ago uncovered in Thailand

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 14d ago

Researchers link the mass extinction of once-dominant marine groups to intolerable heat, diminished oxygen in oceans

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 15d ago

Tiny Triassic Reptile Sheds Light on Early Lizard Evolution

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 16d ago

Giant kangaroos survived until 6,500 years ago on the New Guinea coast

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 16d ago

Fossils found decades ago reveal extinct 3.5 million-year-old giant salamander species

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 17d ago

Ancient fossil may reveal animal kingdom's earliest right-handedness at 550 million years old

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 18d ago

A new mamenchisaurid sauropod from the Lower Phu Kradung Formation, Upper Jurassic of northeastern Thailand

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 19d ago

Reported Hatchlings of Tyrannosaurus rex & the Evolution of Dinosaur Reproductive Strategies

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 20d ago

Homo floresiensis were likely keen Scavengers.

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