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news Anthropology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Fossil and growth comparisons
A new npj Palaeoecosystems study dates the Taung child to 2.96 to 3.03 million years ago and finds adult fossils filed with its species may not belong together.
news Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Fossil description
A 6-million-year-old pygmy sperm whale skull from Peru has both bony nostrils on its left side. Scientists infer it fed on the seafloor; one skull is known.
news Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Fossil description plus bone chemistry
Two 237-million-year-old skeletons from China may show the first fully marine amphibian. What the fossils and strontium test show, and the caveat that remains.
news Earth Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Rock-record dating study
River rocks date North China's end-Permian carbon upheaval to 252.1–252.0 Ma, in step with the marine die-off, but each age has a 220,000-year uncertainty.
news Paleontology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Single specimen
A braincase bought by the Natural History Museum in 1924 is Europe's first megaraptoran: Invictibellatrix amberina, a 3–4 m predator from the Isle of Wight.
news Earth Evidence status: Peer reviewed (accepted manuscript); one rock section plus a regional fossil compilation; statistical association
Rocks near Beijing date the Cambrian SPICE event to about 2.2 million years and show sea-level swings ran roughly 70,000 years ahead of seafloor species losses.
Explainer Paleontology
Brontosaurus is a genus of large, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs. They roamed the Earth during the Late Jurassic period in the present-day United States. Here, we gathered information about the Brontosaurus,…
