"Palaeontology" Blogs & Blog Posts

Scientists think that the animal, which lived 270 million years ago, likely "resembled a stout salamander."...

Endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, is the ability of mammals and birds to produce their own body heat and control their body temperature. A warm-blooded mammal ancestor breathing out hot hairin a frigid night [Credit: Luzia Soares]This major diffe...

Fossils discovered in Scotland represent some of the world's oldest salamanders, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.Artist's impression of Marmorerpeton wakei [Credit: Brennan Stokkermans]The research team analyzed 166-million-year-old f...

The evolution of the brain and nervous system in animals has been wound back more than 400 million years, thanks to the examination of fossil remains of ancient lungfish providing a missing link in the emergence of land-living, four-legged animals on...

New research today reveals that wildfires may have been a key contributor to the total collapse of land ecosystems during the Earth's worst mass extinction event over 250 million years ago.During the worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history,...

Located between Australia and New Zealand, the Tasman Sea is an important but so far neglected component of the global ocean conveyor belt. Now a new study has discovered evidence that this marginal sea in the South Pacific also played an important r...

ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) revealed new research based on a cache of fossils that contains the brain and nervous system of a half-billion-year-old marine predator from the Burgess Shale called Stanleycaris. Stanleycaris belonged to an ancient, extinc...