Paleontology

Latest research

1. Progress and future directions in dinosaur palaeontology

   • Xing Xu
   • Paul Upchurch
   • Mike Benton

   in Nature Reviews Biodiversity

   Article 12 August 2026

   

2. Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests

   • Jungang Peng
   • Sam M. Slater
   • Vivi Vajda

   in npj Palaeoecosystems

   Article Open access 11 August 2026

   

3. Investigating a Devonian vertebrate assemblage with synchrotron microtomography of coprolites

   • Arnaud Rebillard
   • Vincent Dupret
   • Per Erik Ahlberg

   in Scientific Reports

   Article Open access 10 August 2026

   

4. Revision of Hawaiian seamount Zoanthidea genera to bridge the parataxonomy gap, retain Gerardiidae, and introduce Antipathozoanthidae fam. nov. and Vitrumanthidae fam. nov

   • Jacob Colbert
   • Heidi Hellenbrand
   • Timothy D. Swain

   in Marine Biodiversity

   Article 08 August 2026

   

5. Ancient tooth proteins deepen the Homo naledi mystery

   • Elsabe Brits

   in Nature Africa

   Article 06 August 2026

   

6. Inside an extinct hyena’s prehistoric pantry

   • Sahana Ghosh

   in Nature India

   Article 06 August 2026

   

7. Des protéines denses issues de dents anciennes renforcent le mystère autour de l’Homo naledi

   in Nature Africa

   Article 06 August 2026

   

8. Cyclic Gas Injection and Withdrawal in Underground Gas Storage: Reservoir Stress State and Wellbore Stability

   in Advances in Oil and Gas Exploration & Production

   Book 2026

   

9. High-resolution facies analysis of the Upper Cambrian Pilgrim Limestone at Rendezvous Peak, Western Wyoming: Implications for carbonate factory dynamics and lithostratigraphic correlation

   • Sonicah Sanon
   • Oscar Munoz
   • Yadira Ibarra

   in Facies

   Article 03 August 2026

   

10. The Barremian Stage in Northern Siberia and Its Evidence by Microfossils (Foraminifers, Ostracodes, Marine, and Terrestrial Palynomorphs)

    • B. L. Nikitenko
    • E. B. Pestchevitskaya

    in Doklady Earth Sciences

    Article 03 August 2026

    

11. The forensic traces that can help catch poachers — July’s best science images

    • Dhruv Shenai

    in Nature

    Article 31 July 2026

    

12. Cretaceous zhelestid mammals are zalambdalestoids

    • Andres Giallombardo
    • Eva A. Hoffman
    • Michael J. Novacek

    in Nature

    Article 29 July 2026

    

13. First occurrence of a fossil rhinoceros on the island of Kos (Dodecanese, Greece)

    • A. I. Avrithis
    • I. X. Giaourtsakis

    in Discover Geoscience

    Article Open access 29 July 2026

    

14. The first known cephalopod was only a millimetre long and lived about 520 million years ago

    in Nature

    Article 29 July 2026

    

15. Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization

    • Benjamin Thompson
    • Nick Petrić Howe

    in Nature

    Article 29 July 2026

    

16. Earliest siphuncle-bearing cephalopod from the early Cambrian

    • Zuchen Song
    • Bing Pan
    • Hanjie Wen

    in Nature

    Article 29 July 2026

    

17. New records of platyrrhine primates (Atelidae and Cebidae) from the Miocene of Western Amazonia, State of Acre, Brazil

    • Laurent Marivaux
    • Francisco Ricardo Negri
    • Ana Maria Ribeiro

    in Journal of Mammalian Evolution

    Article 28 July 2026

    

18. The rocks that remember: piecing together a lost continent

    • Mkhululi Chimoio

    in Nature Africa

    Article 28 July 2026

    

19. Identifying biotic and abiotic roles in marine clade extinction

    • Haijun Song
    • Xiaokang Liu
    • Daniele Silvestro

    in Nature Ecology & Evolution

    Article 27 July 2026

    

20. New record of coralline alga Distichoplax biserialis from Bengal Basin, India with insights on its paleoenvironment

    • Sumedh Humane
    • Savita Chaurpagar
    • Pradeep Kundal

    in Carbonates and Evaporites

    Article 27 July 2026

    

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