Wrinkle ridges that formed in the past 160 million years suggest recent geological activity on the moon. #fossils #paleontology

The new evidence reignites a debate about cannibalism among ancient Europeans. It's a lot to get your teeth into. #fossils #paleontology

New study reveals surprisingly consistent insect feeding damage on fossils from Argentina and modern gum tree leaves from Australia. #fossils #paleontology

The discovery of the Taung Child reshaped human origins research, but its history is deeply tied to colonialism, exclusion, and the ongoing need for greater African representation in palaeoanthropology. #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have described a new species of the extant bee genus Leioproctus from a fossil specimen found in southern New Zealand. #fossils #paleontology

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies. #fossils #paleontology

Researchers from NC State and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences discover a small, burrowing dinosaur, shedding light into an unknown area of paleontology. #fossils #paleontology

Birds are today’s only living dinosaurs, but how did they survive the asteroid? #fossils #paleontology

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs that lived during the same period. #fossils #paleontology

Learn how scientists used AI and X-ray technology to digitally open a Roman scroll that was burned and buried during the catastrophic Mount Vesuvius eruption. #fossils #paleontology

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic were deliberately engraved with geometric patterns, indicating advanced cognitive and symbolic behavior among early humans. #fossils #paleontology

A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. #fossils #paleontology

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs. #fossils #paleontology

You might have an idea of what a fossil looks like – but these fossils are slightly different (and will change the way you think about ancient wildlife and civilisations!) #fossils #paleontology

Radiocarbon dates from tens of thousands of bones, textiles, food scraps, and charcoal bits are shedding light on fluctuations in Indigenous population numbers across the Americas before the arrival of Europeans. #fossils #paleontology

Generative AI can help illustrate archaeology findings—but are its reconstructions accurate or misleading? #fossils #paleontology

In a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, paleontologists analyzed the fossilized remains of the alvarezsaurid dinosaur Bonapartenykus from the Allen Formation of Patagonia. #fossils #paleontology

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years. Recent research on fossil shark teeth has discovered an innovative method for dating ancient sediments. #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists continue to find fossils that help revise our understanding of how dinosaurs reproduced. #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have discovered a set of ancient bear footprints—assigned to the ichnospecies Ursichnus europaeus—in Honseca Cave, northern Spain. #fossils #paleontology