The Latest Breaking News on Paleontology

Australia uncovers the world’s largest dinosaur footprints from 130 million years ago

Researchers have found some of the biggest dinosaur footprints ever. They are so huge that an adult could curl up inside one without a problem. It’s wild to imagine, honestly. This kind of find really turns our old ideas about prehistoric life on its head.

The Times of India · Jan 29

New dinosaur fossils found under a parking lot reveal a 100-year-old secret in Colorado

You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at Dinosaur National Monument, on the border of Colorado and Utah. Workers were just doing some routine upgrades near the Quarry Exhibit Hall when they hit a layer of sandstone…

The Times of India · Jan 28

Archaeologists uncover 800,000-year-old human footprints beneath the sands of eastern England

A brief period of low tide along a tranquil coastline in eastern England revealed an uncommon sight in Europe. A series of human footprints emerged on a Norfolk beach, momentarily exposed by shifting sands and pressed into ancient mud. The impressions were fleeting and fragile, yet they were sufficiently distinct…

The Times of India · Jan 26

‘Remarkable’ prehistoric elephant bone tool is oldest in Europe, archaeologists reveal

Archaeologists said the 500,000-year-old tool was fashioned by ‘ingenious’ prehistoric ancestors

The Independent UK · Jan 21

Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour

The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago

The Guardian - UK · Jan 21

The National Park Service just uncovered a long-necked dinosaur

Park workers excavated 3,000 pounds of fossil and rock

The Independent UK · Jan 16

It took the fearsome T rex 40 years to reach its full size, study finds

Findings extend growth phase of T rex by 15 years

The Independent UK · Jan 16

Alaska's 'Mammoth Discovery' Debunked: Ancient Whale Bones Misidentified for Decades

Bones thought to be world's youngest mammoths for 70 years turn out to be whales. DNA reveals shocking truth about Alaska museum fossils.

International Business Times UK · Jan 12

Someone Asked Scarlett Johansson If Colin Jost Or Michael Che Would Do Better In Jurassic World, And She Had A Clear Answer

Would either Jost or Che... find a way?

Cinemablend · Jan 11

Fossils discovered in Morocco shed light on our African roots

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study this week.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 11