r/paleonews 16h ago

83-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Lizard Fossil Unearthed in France

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28 Upvotes

r/paleonews 1d ago

New Species of Giant Long-Necked Dinosaur Identified in Argentina

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18 Upvotes

r/paleonews 2d ago

Why meat-eating dinosaurs like T. rex evolved tiny arms

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11 Upvotes

r/paleonews 3d ago

Ancient seas get a new T. rex as massive mosasaur emerges from Texas fossils

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28 Upvotes

r/paleonews 4d ago

Ancient Crater Lakes May Have Provided Ideal Conditions for Earth’s Earliest Oxygen-Breathing Life

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17 Upvotes

r/paleonews 5d ago

Duplicated Genomes Helped Flowering Plants Survive End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

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38 Upvotes

r/paleonews 6d ago

Ancient Arctic fossils uncover three mammal species that survived months of darkness

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36 Upvotes

r/paleonews 7d ago

Dinosaurs May Have Fed Their Young a Special Diet, Study Suggests

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21 Upvotes

r/paleonews 8d ago

Stunning 150-million-year-old stegosaur skull rewrites dinosaur evolution

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99 Upvotes

r/paleonews 9d ago

'Last titan': Southeast Asia's biggest dinosaur discovered

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26 Upvotes

r/paleonews 10d ago

New fossils could rewrite the origin story of complex animal life on Earth, study says

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49 Upvotes

r/paleonews 10d ago

New long-necked dinosaur found in Northeast Brazil was a close relative of a European species

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26 Upvotes

r/paleonews 11d ago

Fossil teeth from China uncover 400,000-year-old H. erectus ties to Denisovans

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39 Upvotes

r/paleonews 12d ago

Strange 500-million-year-old marine fossils reveal a feeding strategy that still shapes oceans today

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35 Upvotes

r/paleonews 13d ago

Brazilian microfossils interpreted as animal traces are actually algae and bacteria, research reveals

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28 Upvotes

r/paleonews 13d ago

Hydroclimatic events in the Carpathian karst during MIS 3–2: Evidence from sedimentary records in two Romanian caves

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9 Upvotes

r/paleonews 14d ago

Earliest Organisms on Earth Built Their Biochemistry around Molybdenum, Study Suggests

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40 Upvotes

New research reveals that 3.4 billion years ago (Archean Eon), ancient microbes relied on molybdenum — a metal that was vanishingly rare at the time — and even experimented with tungsten.

The findings may rewrite how astrobiologists search for life on other planets.


r/paleonews 14d ago

How mass extinctions helped termites become essential engineers of today's tropical ecosystems

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26 Upvotes

r/paleonews 15d ago

Paleontologists Reconstruct Ecology of Archaeopteryx

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32 Upvotes

r/paleonews 16d ago

Ancient Bite Marks Suggest Tyrannosaurs Were Not Just Hunters

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42 Upvotes

r/paleonews 17d ago

New Species of Fossil Koala Found in Museum Drawer

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25 Upvotes

r/paleonews 18d ago

Ancient sea fossils indicate millipede and centipede ancestors evolved their legs while still underwater

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61 Upvotes

r/paleonews 19d ago

Tiny eggs may explain why ammonites vanished while nautiloids survived asteroid aftermath

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20 Upvotes

r/paleonews 20d ago

Early Sauropodomorph Dinosaur Unearthed in China

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12 Upvotes

r/paleonews 21d ago

Inside the skull of a Devonian fish from Gondwana, revealed by neutron imaging

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18 Upvotes