Paleontology

Newly discovered fossil challenges idea of ape origins in east Africa - study

The remains, discovered in 2023 and 2024, are incomplete, and made up of only a few jawbone fragments and worn teeth. 

Image from Apes and monkeys, Their life and language; illustrative.
A 46-foot (14m) long Spinosaurus cast debuts at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, US, June 2, 2023.

Fossils of a new species of huge dinosaur Spinosaurus unearthed in Niger

160-million-year-old Anchiornis fossils.

160 million years later: This rare fossil is overturning everything we knew about how birds evolved

Dinosaur, edmontosaurus close up with open mouth. Ukraine, Khmelnitsky, October 2021.

'Medusa,' possible 'dinosaur mummy' discovered in Badlands, transferred for further research


Scientists digitally reconstruct skull of mysterious Triassic reptile

As the scientists note, its "paleobiology remains contentious," some scientists believe it lived on land other stated that it was an aquatic-dwelling reptile.

Tanystropheus

Israeli scholars find earliest proof of feather molt in flying dinosaur

One of the fossils clearly featured the marks of the feathers on the wings.

Fossil of Microraptor, a four winged dinosaur which lived 120 million years ago

Modest insect-munching Madagascar reptile was forerunner to dinosaurs

"Evolution of gigantism from tiny ancestors is not uncommon in the fossil record."

Kongonaphon kely is seen in what would have been its natural environment in an illustration

The culinary mystery behind shaped stone balls in Paleolithic Israel

The Qesem Cave was inhabited between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago.

Shaped stone ball from Qesem Cave

Ancient fish had fingers, bridged the gap between aquatic and land animals

The study found that the first evolutionary pattern for the first version of a human hand appeared in fish before they left the water

Fossil Tree

Was a prehistoric ‘Magen David Adom’ fixing legs 35,000 years ago?

Study on a child's fractured bones finds that individuals must have taken care of the injury, allowing the child not only to survive but even to recover from the fracture.

Manot Cave (arrow in the image indicate where the foot was found)

A children's book to encourage young women to take an interest in science

Prof. Cwikel publishes "Mayufa and the Bone Lady", a children's book in English, Arabic and Hebrew on paleontology. The book encourages girls to engage into science.

The cover of Goldsmith’s book

Planet's oldest fossilized forest uncovered in abandoned New York quarry

The expert's findings depict a time when the planet went from having no forests, transforming into a landscape covered in trees.

Central Catskills Mountains from Twin south summit