Palaeontology: Primary school pupils in California find 11,500-year-old fossil

There was great excitement at Tara Redwood School in California when primary school pupils discovered [...]

Palaeontology: Species of ray discovered in Bavaria – this is Aellopobatis bavarica

In a recent publication in the journal Papers in Palaeontology, researchers led by Julia Türtscher, [...]

Palaeontology: Oversized freshwater turtle discovered in Amazonia

The aquatic landscapes of the Amazon are home to some of the largest representatives of [...]

Palaeontology: Researchers discover 100 unknown species in the sea near New Zealand

Off the eastern coast of New Zealand stretches the 800 kilometre long Bounty Trough, a [...]

Palaeontology: This whale was probably not so colossal

The existence of an early whale species that dwarfed even the imposing blue whale caused [...]

Tiny tropical fish is as loud as a jet plane

The expectation that loud animals are also large is often disappointed, especially in the case [...]

Palaeontology: Enigmatic prehistoric lizard from Trentino is probably a fake

The animal stands out clearly on the light-coloured stone, and for decades experts regarded this [...]

Palaeontology: New species of pterosaur discovered in Scotland

Many millions of years ago, they roamed the skies over Europe: majestic pterosaurs with slender, [...]

Palaeontology: Primordial worm Timorebestia koprii was the terror of the seas

Peary Island is located in the north of Greenland. It is a peninsula on which [...]

Palaeontology: When the mammoths were on the run

When Elma was possibly struck by a deadly spear, she was in the prime of [...]