Matthew Robert Bennett receives funding from Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sally Christine Reynolds does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Pterosaur fossils have been discovered in all corners of the globe since their first discovery in Kansas in the 1700s. Some of the most common species, like the Pteranodon, have had many fossil ...

Using the fossil record to accurately estimate the timing and pace of past mass extinctions is no easy task, and a new study highlights how fossil evidence can produce a misleading picture if not ...

Fossil and living animals were analyzed by Finnegan and coauthors in their study of extinction risk in the oceans. Fossil examples on left, living examples on right. From top to bottom: whales, sharks ...

A new, expanded book - Introducing Palaeontology: a guide to ancient life - by Patrick Wyse Jackson, Associate Professor and Head of Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences, provides a ...

ZURICH — Some fossils tell simple stories. But a recent discovery in Venezuela tells a more complex tale, preserving evidence ...

He knew what it was as soon as he saw it: the signature sign of a bird landing. He’d seen hundreds of such tracks along the Georgia coast. He’d photographed them, measured them, and drawn them. The ...

Southwest part of Area A with the red silty sand removed to reveal a series of linear features and human footprints. Credit: Quaternary Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.qsa.2025.100274 If ...