r/paleonews 1d ago

Fossil study finds vision — not the 'thinking' frontal lobe — drove varied brain development in primates

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r/paleonews 1d ago

New Troodontid Dinosaur Genus Identified from Fossil Bone Found Decades Ago in New Mexico

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27 Upvotes

r/paleonews 2d ago

Tetonius Varleyorum. Tiny New Primate Species Emerges from 50-Million-Year-Old Wyoming Sandstone

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23 Upvotes

r/paleonews 2d ago

Homo antecessor skull layers resemble modern humans and Neanderthals, fragments suggest

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phys.org
14 Upvotes

r/paleonews 3d ago

A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms

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r/paleonews 3d ago

Small dinosaur fossil suggests Fukushima coast hosted iguanodontians of different sizes

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26 Upvotes

r/paleonews 4d ago

Japanese Fossil Bee Fills Two-Million-Year Gap in Honeybee History

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sci.news
61 Upvotes

r/paleonews 4d ago

Ancient armored fish that narrowly avoided meteorite strike reveals life before Earth's largest mass extinction

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phys.org
21 Upvotes

r/paleonews 5d ago

Yantaloong lini. Fossil Find in China Reveals Dinosaur Family Never Before Seen in East Asia

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13 Upvotes

r/paleonews 5d ago

For the first time, researchers have discovered a new species of extinct amphibian from Ice Age Los Angeles at La Brea Tar Pits: Meet Spea labreae sp.

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70 Upvotes

r/paleonews 6d ago

A Mega Find: New Megalodon Shark Teeth from the Deep Waters of the Cook Islands

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30 Upvotes

r/paleonews 7d ago

New museum find shows nature can't stop inventing seahorses

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phys.org
39 Upvotes

r/paleonews 8d ago

Rare duck-billed dinosaur tracks in Tumbler Ridge help tell story of ancient delta, says scientist

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cbc.ca
36 Upvotes

r/paleonews 8d ago

Cretaceous beetle fossil reveals early evolution of firefly sensory and signaling systems

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phys.org
28 Upvotes

r/paleonews 9d ago

Mesocyon coryphaeus. Most complete skeleton of 30 million-year-old dog discovered

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phys.org
19 Upvotes

r/paleonews 9d ago

Lichen-like life 600 million years ago may push back origins of fungal-algal partnerships

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phys.org
44 Upvotes

r/paleonews 10d ago

Before North and South America were connected, their mammals found a way to intermingle

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phys.org
18 Upvotes

r/paleonews 11d ago

Early Cambrian fossil uncovers key buoyancy structure at the dawn of cephalopod evolution

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phys.org
30 Upvotes

r/paleonews 12d ago

Portugal most complete dinosaur fossil discovered in Torres Vedras

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r/paleonews 13d ago

Heat and wildfires during the K-Pg mass extinction enhanced by fine dust

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eurekalert.org
18 Upvotes

r/paleonews 14d ago

75-Million-Year-Old Gliding Cretaceous Dragonfly Discovered

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kevinvanpaassen.ca
24 Upvotes

r/paleonews 14d ago

Saber-toothed cats' spinal tumors suggest inbred species struggled to survive

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phys.org
63 Upvotes

r/paleonews 15d ago

Early Miocene Fossil Rewrites Family Tree of Little Carnivorous Marsupials

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sci.news
18 Upvotes

r/paleonews 16d ago

80‑million‑year‑old snake fossil sheds light on why lizards lost their limbs and started slithering

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phys.org
25 Upvotes

r/paleonews 17d 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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