New research reveals Dunkleosteus was an oddball among ancient armored fishes. https://t.co/3PuOSIzkFh #fossils #paleontology

Deep in Transylvania’s Hațeg Basin, researchers have uncovered a rare bone bed where dinosaur fossils lie stacked together by the hundreds. https://t.co/Dmkb6pwY6n #fossils #paleontology

Humans and their ancestors have likely been kissing for a very long time, a new study suggests. https://t.co/N2casMjm3n #fossils #paleontology

Rare, gruesome Jurassic fossils of decapitated Aspidorhynchus fish are revealing the violent predator–prey rivalries that once ruled ancient seas. https://t.co/ODlzuCWG5x #fossils #paleontology

Paleontologists have uncovered Australia’s oldest crocodile eggshells — traces of an extinct lineage that may have included tree-dwelling “drop crocs.” https://t.co/wPr2wndbRh #fossils #paleontology

A research team in China has uncovered Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis, an early marine reptile whose astonishingly long neck was built from 42 cervical vertebrae. https://t.co/wBJFCpEx9f #fossils #paleontology

Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans. https://t.co/zczmikIzcy #fossils #paleontology

Deep in the Burgess Shale’s ancient mud lies the story of Mosura fentoni — a three-eyed, fin-fringed Cambrian predator that once prowled the seas half a billion years ago. https://t.co/CyhYHNmDRt #fossils #paleontology

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an exceptionally preserved specimen contradicts that. https://t.co/LJfFNnJ1zJ #fossils #paleontology

A previously unknown Indigenous population lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study finds. https://t.co/NHMcs1yX6r #fossils #paleontology

Technology to clone mammoths may be close, but does that mean we should? https://t.co/POTy8E55JN #fossils #paleontology

A 55-million-year-old eggshell discovery from Queensland rewrites the early history of Australia’s extinct mekosuchine crocodiles. https://t.co/KlVTwtrtDz #fossils #paleontology

A paleoanthropologist reflects on England’s oldest human cranium—and what its changing interpretations say about science. https://t.co/mKeFLBFTkY #fossils #paleontology

A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular evidence linking the two. https://t.co/SksuS96rmb #fossils #paleontology

Ireland is an unlikely candidate for dinosaur fossils but two were found on Islandmagee beach, two decades apart. https://t.co/tlajw1Pgv0 #fossils #paleontology

Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find. https://t.co/bqWy0uTjVR #fossils #paleontology

Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide. https://t.co/hnXXKWys15 #fossils #paleontology

Scientists sequence the oldest RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth. https://t.co/gIcR6PH9AR #fossils #paleontology

A massive Arctic fossil haul from Spitsbergen is unveiling a 249-million-year-old marine world filled with ancient reptiles, amphibians, fish, and sharks. https://t.co/LaraiFZBHm #fossils #paleontology

Footprints preserved on ancient dunes show Neanderthals actively navigating, hunting, and living along Portugal’s coastline. https://t.co/JbX0H4pmlJ #fossils #paleontology