The discovery of a major Australian cave of 15 million years old, home to ancient fossil bones of animals, has revealed almost the entire life cycle of a large prehistoric marsupial, like a wombat, from its infant stage to old age.

In what is an unprecedented discovery, a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, has been unearthed in the cave floor very well preserved fossils of the extinct marsupial known as Nimbadon lavarackorum, along with the remains of other ancient animals. (more…)

The new research results reveal that a fossil of a certain “dinoave” 150 million years old, who was believed that it contained nothing but fossilized bone and rock, has kept hidden traces of the original chemistry of the animal. (more…)

There seems to be a basic rule of body size and the need for food: The larger an animal spends more time eating. This means that an elephant should devote much time each day to eat to satisfy his enormous appetite. As pointed out by Professor Martin Sander of the University of Bonn, this leads to one of the many mysteries surrounding the existing gigantic dinosaurs. Some of these beasts were so large that if we pay attention to that basic rule one day have to take 30 hours to larger dinosaurs were able to meet their energy demands. (more…)

They found first evidence that a moderate warm climate and allowed the dinosaurs to spread through North America to form a massive single homogeneous community.

The researchers behind the discovery, McGill University, Canada, are unraveling the mysteries of the little known habits of dinosaurs, finding that the entire Western Interior of North America during a time was probably inhabited by one community of dinosaurs. According to statistical analysis of the fossil record, dinosaurs were facing very well to all environments, and were not as restricted to specific geographical areas as previously thought. (more…)

A strange set of dental features present in teeth recently unearthed in northern Egypt revealed the former existence of a highly specialized primate, who had not previously been documented scientifically. This primate called Nosmips Aenigmaticus, lived in Africa about 37 million years. (more…)

The red rocks of Utah, world famous attractions in many parks and monuments of the United States, have provided a rare skeleton of an herbivorous dinosaur species, hitherto unknown. The specimen lived 185 million years ago and may have been buried alive by a sand dune collapsed. The discovery confirms the widespread success of the dinosaur’s sauropodomorphs during the Early Jurassic Period.

Until now, the red rocks of Utah were known only by a few bones and footprints of dinosaurs. However, this discovery of a remarkably well-preserved partial skeleton is causing a sensation among paleontologists. (more…)

A team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur with a bony lump on the top of his skull. It is an herbivorous dinosaur, as big as a medium sized dog, which lived between 70 and 80 million years.
Nicholas Longrich’s team of Yale University found two skull fragments in the Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas, in 2008. In the long study on the two scientists made comparisons of the bone fragments with dozens of fossil specimens of related species found in Canada and Montana. Finally, the opinion is that the fossils represent a new genus of bipedal dinosaur with a skull thickness. (more…)

More than three million years ago, the ancestors of modern humans have spent a considerable time of his life standing on the trees, but, contrary to what would be logical to assume, his walk seemed much closer to that of the modern humans than to that of tree-dwelling apes. They reveal the evidence obtained by a team of researchers on an analysis complemented by an experiment.

A fossil trail of footprints preserved in volcanic ash deposited in the area 3.6 million years ago, was discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania, more than 30 years. The importance of these prints for human evolution has been debated ever since. (more…)

Until now, paleontologists had thought mainly because the closest relatives of the dinosaurs had a somewhat smaller size, walked on two feet and were carnivores. However, a research team has made a discovery that may lead to discard this hypothesis, at least in part.

The team, which includes Randall Irmis, curator of paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Utah and Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, announced the discovery of a protodinosaurio (an animal like a dinosaur). This is a new species called Asilisaurus Kongwa. (more…)

Contrary to assumptions that enjoyed far greater acceptance in the scientific community, a study has produced an unexpected result: the appearance of our earliest direct ancestor was significantly more apelike.

A computer-generated reconstruction by Dr. Timothy Bromage, a paleoanthropologist and Professor of Biomaterials and Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology, School of Dentistry at the University of New York, shows the skull of a 1.9 million-year-old rudolfensis belonged to Homo, the first member of the human race with a surprisingly small brain and a very prominent jaw, features commonly associated with more apelike members of the family of hominids that lived some three million years. (more…)