The Mifune Dinosaur Museum in Japan announced on Tuesday that a fossil found nearly three decades ago in Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified as a previously unclassified genus and species of ...

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(CNN) – An avocado farmer found a fossil that turned out to be a new pterosaur species. Kevin Petersen, the curator of a fossil museum in Queensland, Australia, found the fossil in 2021. Since then, ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of pterosaur in Australia. The fossilized remains of the flying reptile, which lived among the dinosaurs, were discovered in western Queensland.

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Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back up. A rare mix of geological conditions preserved this dinosaur vomit for ...

As a small mammal foraging around in the leafy undergrowth during the Jurassic period, you would always be on the lookout. Reptilian predators were everywhere during the age of the dinosaurs, but the ...

The fossils were uncovered at a remote bonebed in present-day Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. They date back to the late Triassic period and offer paleontologists a snapshot of an ecosystem ...

You might think that if a species died out tens of millions of years ago, its design would be too primitive to have any applications in modern-day technology. A new analysis of pterosaur bones, ...

The pursuit of becoming a world-first fossil is one of dogged determination. The majority of life on Earth doesn’t get preserved, so you’ve got to die just right, bathed in just the right conditions.