Entomologist Richard Jones explains just why prehistoric insects were so large... Image credit: Mark A. Garlick www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-... #fossils #paleontology

Fossils from Queensland suggest a newly recognized marsupial order may have survived in Australia for around 35 million years, rewriting part of the story of how the continent's unique mammals evolved. Image credit: Peter Schouten www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. Image credit: Southwest Research Institute/Don Davis. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Fossil jaws from Australia have uncovered the earliest known ancestor of modern dasyurid marsupials, filling a major gap in their evolutionary history. Image credit: Neville Garden. phys.org/news/2026-07... #fossils #paleontology

Researchers have identified geological "fingerprints" left by underwater caves that could reveal the history of ancient megafauna fossils. Image credit: Steve Trewavas www.discovermagazine.com/bones-from-u... #fossils #paleontology

Nickel isotopes preserved in debris from the Chicxulub impact suggest the asteroid that triggered the dinosaurs' extinction belonged to a rare class of primitive meteorites. Image credit: Donald E. Davis / NASA. www.sci.news/space/chicxu... #fossils #paleontology

Discovering a new dinosaur species is always exciting, but Mother Nature made sure one of Explorer Diego Pol's latest finds came with some extra challenges. Image credit: Gabriel Díaz Yantén. www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/... #fossils #paleontology

A 240-million-year-old animal reveals how the ancestors of dinosaurs and crocodiles evolved before their rise. Illustration by Matheus Fernandes. theconversation.com/reptile-foss... #fossils #paleontology

Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that a Bronze Age shaman was male. Photograph: Wiltshire Museum www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #fossils #paleontology

Pterosaurs soared the skies for 160 million years, from sparrow-sized insect hunters to giants that stood as tall as a giraffe. Until now nobody had put all of them in one book. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide catalogues 252 species. Funded on day one. https://fossi.ls/ks

A fish believed to have died out with the dinosaurs was pulled up alive in a net, a living fossil that had been quietly surviving in the deep ocean for 66 million years while we assumed it was gone. scienceblog.com/t-coelacanth... #fossils #paleontology

A meteorite weighing more than 2 pounds (1 kilogram) that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home two years ago could shed light on ancient water in the solar system. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/15/s... #fossils #paleontology

Thousands of fossilized bones offer rare physical evidence that Tyrannosaurus rex fed on the carcasses of a duck-billed dinosaur species called Edmontosaurus annectens. Image credit: Dani Navarro. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Scientists who have been finding fossils in SA's underwater caves are hoping they can give a window into environmental changes. Image credit: Steve Trewavas. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07... #fossils #paleontology

A new genus and species of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified in southern Alberta, Canada, dating back 77 million years to the Campanian age of the Cretaceous period. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge / CC BY 4.0. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

A fossilized Edmontosaurus skull with a Tyrannosaurus tooth still embedded in its face has given scientists rare evidence of a dramatic predator-prey encounter. Image credit: Jenn Hall. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

The future of the UK's largest ichthyosaur fossil remains uncertain after a council refused to revisit plans for a permanent museum display. Image credit: Anglian Water www.bbc.com/news/article... #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists in Uruguay have identified a new species of aeolosaurine titanosaur from a pair of remarkably well-preserved tailbones unearthed in the 1980s near the Uruguay River. Image credit: Merlina Ramírez. sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

A cave in Türkiye suggests the transition from Neanderthals to modern humans was far more culturally seamless than once believed. Image credit: Tyler B. Tretsven. www.sci.news/archaeology/... #fossils #paleontology

A new study suggests that two of the best-known trends in human evolution—brain growth and the reduction in the size of the face and jaw—may be far less attributable to directed natural selection than scientists have long assumed. phys.org/news/2026-07... #fossils #paleontology

A new study suggests that two of the best-known trends in human evolution—brain growth and the reduction in the size of the face and jaw—may be far less attributable to directed natural selection than scientists have long assumed. phys.org/news/2026-07... #fossils #paleontology

Citizen scientists have helped solve a long-standing mystery about how parental care evolved in harvestmen, revealing separate evolutionary paths for mothers and fathers. Image credit: John Uribe www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide launches on Kickstarter this Saturday, August 1 at 10 AM Eastern. @pterosaursfieldguide.com — 388 pages, over 200 genera, every one illustrated. Published by 252MYA. https://fossi.ls/fgKS/bs

A fresh look at a nearby exoplanet has moved it onto the shortlist of worlds that could potentially support life. Image credit: NASA www.zmescience.com/science/news... #fossils #paleontology

A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex will go on sale in New York with a pre-sale value of $30m. Image credit: Matthew Sherman www.bbc.com/news/article... #fossils #paleontology

Pigeons may have been living alongside humans for 3,500 years, with new evidence pushing their domestication back nearly a millennium earlier than once thought. phys.org/news/2026-05... #fossils #paleontology

Today, lepidosaurs — the reptile group that includes lizards, snakes and New Zealand’s tuatara — are among the most diverse vertebrates on Earth, but their earliest evolutionary history remains poorly understood. Image credit: Marcio L. Castro. www.sci.news/paleontology... #fossils #paleontology

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New Zealand's birds. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

A global analysis of wolf skulls shows that diet, geography, and even past human persecution have left lasting marks on the species' evolution. Image credit: Adobe Stock scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news... #fossils #paleontology

Scientists studying a 113-million-year-old pterosaur fossil from Brazil uncovered steroid biomarkers preserved inside the animal's hollow wing bones. www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/p... #fossils #paleontology