A new genus and species of pseudosuchian archosaur has been identified from the fossil remains found in southern Brazil.

Named Wakkaoolithus godthelpi, this eggshell type belonged to mekosuchine crocodiles and represent the oldest crocodilian ...

The newly-discovered bee species belongs to the genus Megachile and is a visitor to a critically endangered flowering plant ...

Scientists from Stellenbosch University and elsewhere have used advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating and elemental mapping to measure trace amounts of uranium and lead inside the calcite of fossilized ...

Paleontologists have discovered the fossil bones of Tenontosaurus sp. -- an Early Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaur from North ...

Humans possess the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have, according to new research ...

A research team led by University of Copenhagen scientists has described three new species of the tree toad genus ...

Paleontologists from China and Brazil say they have found a total of 320 phytoliths -- microscopic, rigid bodies made of ...

Paleontologists from the Institute of Paleobiology at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Universitat Autònoma de ...

Lichens are symbioses between fungi and algae (and/or cyanobacteria) that play important ecological roles and colonize many substrates, including fossils.