Omphalosauridae are an under-appreciated part of the biotic recovery from the end-Permian Mass Extinction. This clade, including the genera Omphalosaurus, Sclerocormus and Cartorhynchus, is an enigma...

Language is part of bill to fund government until mid-December

Resolving the “ontogeny problem” in vertebrate paleontology

ALT: New York Knicks Larry Johnson Chant

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

Learn how paleontologists study fossilized vomit to explore what prehistoric predators ate.

New research describes Tylosaurus rex from more than a dozen previously known fossils.

PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

Despite abundant and productive Toarcian ichthyosaur-bearing localities in continental Europe, in the UK, Toarcian ichthyosaurs may often be fragmentary and/or too poorly preserved for positive identi...

Top predators drive changes in ecosystem structure. For the last ~370 million years, large-sized vertebrates have dominated the apex of the marine food chain, while invertebrates have served as smalle...

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

ALT: a whale is swimming in the ocean and has white spots on its back

Though described as “uniquely sucky,” this fossil has overturned thinking on a murky period in prehistory – and you can even stick your finger in its brain.

Learn more about the “folded” fossil of Ptychotherates bucculentus, from one of the first families of carnivorous dinosaurs.

By cutting into a tiny dinosaur throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid cousin, not a juvenile T. rex.

Whether Nanotyrannus lancensis represents a distinct taxon or an immature Tyrannosaurus rex is a decades-long controversy. The N. lancesis holotype is an isolated skull and ceratobranchials, but limb ...

Some crawled out of the ocean and then several million years later, crawled right back in.

Image made with CANVA with Artwork by PaleoGeekSquared Image made with CANVA with Artwork by PaleoGeekSquared From museum drawers to machine learning, scientists reveal a...

Tool Use Beyond Humans - Volume 92 Issue 4