2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (257+ words) Paleontologists in Montana have discovered remarkably preserved feathers of an ancient aquatic bird inside a fossilized dinosaur dropping, offering rare insight into why certain birds survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago....

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (103+ words) A horned owl living in a narrow strip of high-Andean grassland in northern Peru is a species new to science, according to a paper published in July 2026 in the journal Audiornis....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (115+ words) An incomplete fossilized skull that has sat in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark since the 19th century has turned out to represent a previously unrecognized species of glyptodont (genus Glyptotherium) that once roamed South America....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (450+ words) Cranial fossils of a nodosaurid ankylosaur unearthed more than two decades ago on the Japanese island of Hokkaido have been recognized as belonging to a new genus and species. Nipponopelta yezoensis. Image credit: TotalDino / CC BY 4.0. The newly identified dinosaur…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (19+ words) Dr. Andrew Gunn, a scientist at Monash University, has produced a complete digital map of Earth’s wind-blown sand dunes....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (547+ words) Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of armored, jawless fish from rocks around 419 million years old whose skull was shaped like the wing of a bat and whose unusual head made it an efficient glider through Devonian seas....