Today, a new paper describing new fossils of an early dolphin, Albertocetus, was published in PLOS ONE. This animal was named several years back, and…

To understand a group of organisms, you have to start at their very beginning. The name “archosaur” translates as “ruling reptiles”, and…

We all chew, but hardly ever think about it. Even a moment’s consideration, though, reveals how complex of a process it actually…

Salamanders are fairly adorable, but often forgotten, animals. Because their skeletons are pretty delicate, the fossil record for this group is spotty, with many…

Rhinos are an amazing group of animals, and have a rich fossil history, too. During the past 40 million years, they have…

Some fossils are just too cool. And slightly tragic. A 48 million year old fossil from the Messel beds of Germany fits this category…

Wyoming is a beautiful place, but usually it is associated more with open range, cowboys, mountains, and skiing than it is with…

Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can’t catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in…

This guest post is from Leonardo Maiorino, a vertebrate paleontologist with a particular interest in understanding the evolution of the skull in…

I tend to think of fish brains as fairly unremarkable. Too simple relative to mammal brains, too un-dinosaur-y relative to dinosaur brains…

Don’t mess with Hesperornis. It was a flightless, aquatic Cretaceous bird that measured up to six feet long, had a beak lined with…

The name “moa” inevitably conjures up pictures of giant, lumbering bird-beasts, destined for extinction at the hands of humans. For fans of…