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Ancient lungfish fossils refine early vertebrate story
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 New research from Australian and Chinese scientists is filling key gaps in the evolutionary story of some of the oldest fishes on Earth, including early lungfishes closely related to land vertebrates. In two separate studies, researchers have re-examined fossil material from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia and described a new lungfish species from 410 million-year-old rocks in Yunnan, South China, providing new insights into how early lobe-finned fishes diversified around the ... read more |
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Juvenile sauropods fed a hungry Late Jurassic predator guildLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 02, 2026 Babies and very young sauropods, the long necked and long tailed plant eaters that would become the largest land animals in history, were a key food sustaining predators in the Late Jurassic accordi ... more 
'Extraordinary' trove of ancient species found in China quarryParis, France (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. ... more 
Ancient nitrogen enzyme study illuminates early Earth conditions and life detectionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 By resurrecting a 3.2 billion year old enzyme and testing it inside living microbes, researchers have opened a new experimental window on early Earth and how to recognize signs of life on other worl ... more 
Cosmic krypton timestamps reveal Australia landscape evolution and resourcesSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 14, 2026 Curtin University researchers have unveiled a new way to read the ancient history of Australian landscapes using tiny zircon grains that act as a cosmic clock for erosion and sediment storage. ... more |
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Signs of Ancient Life Turn Up in an Unexpected PlaceBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 14, 2026 Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dades Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw somethi ... more 
Ordovician mass extinction cleared the way for jawed fishes to riseTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 About 445 million years ago, a global environmental crisis reshaped life in the oceans, drying out many shallow seas and driving one of the largest mass extinctions in Earth's history. During this L ... more 
Ancient bee nests found inside Caribbean cave fossilsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Paleontologists working in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola have documented the first known example of fossil bee nests constructed inside pre-existing fossil cavities in mammal and othe ... more 
Fossil bird shows fatal stone-filled throat and hints of dinosaur bird survival storyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A small Cretaceous bird fossil from northeastern China preserves more than 800 tiny stones jammed in its throat, giving researchers rare evidence that this individual likely died by choking. The ani ... more 
'You don't need a big brain to fly' and other lessons from the first flying reptilesBlacksburg VA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Flight evolved only three times among vertebrates: in bats, birds, and the extinct flying reptile called pterosaurs. Of these, pterosaurs were the first to master flight, more than 215 million ... more |
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Pterosaur brains evolved pathways to flight different from birdsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 New research reveals that pterosaurs developed their neurological capabilities for flight independently from birds. An international team studied the fossilized brain structures of ancient flying re ... more 
Ancient giant shark fossils reveal early mega-predator dominance in Australian seasBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 Researchers have identified fossils of a gigantic lamniform shark that lived off northern Australia 115 million years ago. This predator achieved massive body size much earlier in shark evolutionary ... more 
Drilling deep to study the oxygenation of EarthWashington DC (SPX) Nov 24, 2025 Some 2.3 to 2.4 billion years ago, Earth underwent a monumental transformation that forever altered the planet's course. Cyanobacteria evolved a new kind of photosynthesis that unleashed tremendous ... more 
Ancient Arctic sediments revise understanding of wildfires in the Early TriassicBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 18, 2025 Researchers have identified new evidence of ancient wildfires that alters established views on the Early Triassic epoch. An international consortium, including Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, fo ... more 
Half-billion-year-old parasite still threatens shellfishRiverside, CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2025 A new study has unexpectedly discovered that a common parasite of modern oysters actually started infecting bivalves hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs went extinct. The resear ... more |
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Ancient mantle revealed by 3.7-billion-year-old rocks in Australia
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2025 Researchers at the University of Western Australia, along with colleagues from the University of Bristol, the Geological Survey of Western Australia, and Curtin University, examined feldspar crystals from anorthosite rocks found in the Murchison region of Western Australia. These rocks, dated at 3.7 billion years old, are confirmed to be the oldest on the Australian continent and among the earliest on Earth. Lead author Matilda Boyce said the scarcity of ancient rocks makes determination of early ... read more 
Dinosaurs Thrived in New Mexico Up to Catastrophic End Cretaceous ImpactLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 New radiometric dating from a contested fossil site in New Mexico has established that dinosaurs remained both abundant and regionally varied right up until the Cretaceous asteroid impact sixty six ... more |
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