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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Author: Triassic Times
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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Edmontosaurus “Mummies” found with History’s First Hooves
Paleontologists have unveiled two exceptionally preserved “mummy” specimens of Edmontosaurus annectens, a well-known duck-billed dinosaur.
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Several New Coelacanth Species Lived in Museum Drawer for 150 Years
Paleontologists reexamined old museum collections of Triassic fossils in Britain and uncovered that many specimens were previously misidentified.
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Two tiny Pterosaurs caught in a 150-million year old storm
In a new study published last week, Smyth and colleagues investigate injuries in baby pterosaurs from the Solnhofen limestone beds of Germany.
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65-million Year Old Turtle Could Explain How to Survive Extinctions
Paleontologists have found a new species of turtle in Colorado that is dated right to the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary, and survived the extinction.
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