Paleontology

More Stories in Paleontology

  1. Paleontology

    This bright orange life-form could point to new dino discoveries

    Colorful lichen living on dinosaur bones reflect infrared light that can be detected by drones, which might lead to finds in remote areas.

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  2. Animals

    40,000-year-old woolly mammoth RNA offers a peek into its last moments

    Ancient RNA from Yuka, a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost, can offer new biological insights into the Ice Age animal’s life.

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  3. Materials Science

    What causes the rainbow shimmer of ammolite gems?

    Ammolite gems’ fabulous colors arise from delicate assemblies of crystal plates.

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  4. Paleontology

    Nanotyrannus was not a teenaged T. rex

    A new Nanotyrannus fossil suggests the diminutive dino lived alongside T. rex in the late Cretaceous Period.

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  5. Paleontology

    Dinosaurs were thriving before the asteroid hit, new analysis suggests

    New dating of New Mexico rocks suggest diverse dinosaurs thrived there just before the impact, countering the idea dinos were already on their way out.

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  6. Humans

    An ancient bone recasts how Indigenous Australians treated megafauna

    A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

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  7. Paleontology

    These ancient bumblebees were found with their pollen source

    Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fossils now show bees and linden trees goes back 24 million years.

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  8. Animals

    The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn’t made by a rat

    Researchers used methods from paleontology to analyze the quirky local landmark, created when a rodent of a certain size fell into wet concrete.

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  9. Animals

    What the longest woolly rhino horn tells us about the beasts’ biology

    A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived as long as modern-day rhinos, despite harsher Ice Age conditions.

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