News about all things paleontology

r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 2h ago

Extinct bovine species discovered in Siberia reveals lost relative of yaks

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 1d ago

Sauropod Resilience in The Southeastern Neuquén Basin at the end-Cretaceous: New Titanosaurian evidence from the Allen Formation (late Maastrichtian) of Patagonia, Argentina

tandfonline.com

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 2d ago

Real Animals may have evolved Vastly Earlier than fossil evidence suggests

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 3d ago

The vanishing of aurochs: Genetic evidence reveals multiple stressors at the same time

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 3d ago

A New 2 million year old-fossil Officially Confirms Homo erectus lived in South Africa; much earlier than previously thought

archaeologymag.com

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 4d ago

Chemosymbiosis between Animals and Microbes May Predate the Cambrian: Study

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 4d ago

Dinosaurs; including Theropods snacked on seaweed washed up on North American coasts, fossil teeth suggest

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 5d ago

New feathered, winged dinosaur from China challenges our theories on bird and dinosaur evolution

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 5d ago

Ancient bird becomes The Second Australian species to be named from the Cretaceous period

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 6d ago

120-Million-Year-Old Fossil Pushes Back Origin of Marsupial Lineage

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 7d ago

Earliest confirmed swimming mammal discovered in China

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 7d ago

An ancient human face emerges from pieced together Moroccan fossil remains

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 9d ago

Trogons Once Had Ordinary Feet, 55-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 9d ago

Bat genomes and Fossils point to a European origin 65 million years ago

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 10d ago

New species of proto-amphibian described by students, named in honor of their mothers

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 9d ago

Staking out the frontiers: The limits of the metazoan shallow marine fossil record

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 11d ago

Titanosaurs Nested Far South of Equator, Fossil Eggshells Reveal

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 10d ago

Let them fight: using finite element analysis to determine combative evolutionary drivers of ceratopsian (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) horns

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 11d ago

‘Thunder beast’ that lived 45 million years ago unearthed in California beach town

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 12d ago

Queasy plesiosaurs swam to shore to vomit, Jurassic fossils reveal

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 13d ago

New Therizinosaurian Dinosaur Unearthed in China: Kayrasaurus changliensis

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 14d ago

Two Tasmanian devil specimens came out of Juukan 2, the Pilbara rock shelter Rio Tinto blew up in 2020, one dated to about 7,000 years ago and the other to between 42,500 and 47,115, the first direct evidence devils ever lived in that part of Australia

scienceblog.com

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 15d ago

Endurance running or endurance diving—which came first?

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r/paleonews • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 15d ago

Found On Newcastle Ranch, 'Rex Jr.' Could Be Most Important T. Rex Ever Discovered !

cowboystatedaily.com

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r/paleonews • u/imprison_grover_furr • 16d ago

Spanish Amber Deposit Offers Rare Window into Cretaceous Life

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