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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. [1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks ( ichnites ), burrows , cast-off parts, fossilised feces ( coprolites ), palynomorphs and chemical residues .
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country Notes Images Bryophaenocladius zealandiae [6]. Sp. nov Valid Baranov in Baranov et al. . Oligocene (Chattian) Pomahaka Formation
This list of fossil molluscs described in 2025 is a list of new taxa of fossil molluscs that were described during the year 2025, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to molluscan paleontology that occurred in 2025.
January 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM. Lasers Reveal Tattoos of Ancient Peruvian Culture Ary6 ... (LSF)—a popular technique in the world of paleontology—to analyze the tattoos in greater detail. This is ...
2025 in arthropod paleontology is a list of new arthropod fossil taxa, including arachnids, crustaceans, trilobites, and other arthropods (except insects, which have their own list) that were announced or described, as well as other significant arthropod paleontological discoveries and events which occurred in 2025.
Evidence from the study of brain endocasts of extant and extinct mammals, indicative of cortical expansion in the areas of the brain involved in producing cognitive functions that began early on during the primate evolution, is presented by Melchionna et al. (2025), who argue that selection for complex cognition likely drove the evolution of primate brains.
A study on the purported swimming sauropod trail from the Mayan Dude Ranch tracksite in the Lower Cretaceous Glen Rose Formation (Texas, United States), as well as on the second manus-dominated sauropod trackway and on the theropod track from the same track horizon, is published by Adams et al. (2025), who interpret the studied tracks as ...
Su et al. (2025) describe two new specimens of Glyphoderma kangi, providing new information on the anatomy of the studied placodont. [8]Marx et al. (2025) report evidence of preservation of skin traces, including smooth skin on the tail and scaly skin on the flippers, as well as evidence of preservation of melanosomes and keratinocytes in a plesiosaur specimen from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia ...