Triassic Epidemic: Bone Infection Plagued a Community of Giant Phytosaurs
Bone sections from nine Colossosuchus techniensis suggest recurring bone disease, probably bacterial osteomyelitis, that may have contributed to community deaths.
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Kashmir Jaw Reveals the Most Primitive Whale Yet Found
A 48-million-year-old jaw from Kalakot, Jammu and Kashmir, reveals Kalakocetus aurorae, the most primitive whale identified to date.
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Second Tooth Confirms Bird-Like Troodontid Dinosaurs Roamed Southern India
A second, better-preserved tooth from Tamil Nadu’s Kallamedu Formation confirms that bird-like troodontid dinosaurs lived in India at the end of the Cretaceous.
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A “small” 7-metre Sauropod From India May Be One of the Earliest Neosauropods
Ceratocaudia antiqua, a 7-metre sauropod with a horn-like tail crest from Gujarat’s Kutch Basin, is India’s earliest diagnosable macronarian neosauropod.
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3.5-Billion-Year-Old Rock From Jharkhand May Be the Oldest Directly Dated Trace of Life
Zircons in the Bhitardari chert from Jharkhand date a possible microbial mat to 3,497 ± 5 million years ago, offering clues to Earth’s early life.
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India’s First Leptosuchomorph Is a Crocodile Look-Alike From Telangana’s Triassic
A Maleri Formation skull from Telangana reveals Primisuchus gillettei, India’s first leptosuchomorph phytosaur and a new Triassic marker.
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India’s First Silesaurid Is a Dinosaur Cousin With Forward-Jutting Teeth
A small skull from Madhya Pradesh reveals Rewasaurus minori, India’s first definitive silesaurid: a Late Triassic dinosaur cousin with forward-pointing teeth.
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Were Australia’s First Peoples the World’s First Paleontologists?
Did Indigenous Australians hunt the continent’s now-extinct megafauna, or did they engage with fossils in a more symbolic and scientific way?
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New Pterosaur Species Discovered in Brazil
Paleontologists have identified a new species of pterosaur, named Galgadraco zephyrius, from fossil remains found in Upper Cretaceous Brazil.
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New Jurassic Ichthyosaur Species Discovered in Germany
Paleontologists have identified a new species of the marine reptile genus Eurhinosaurus, named Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from Jurassic deposits in Bavaria, southern Germany.
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