Detailed description of small vertebrate tracks - recently found within the Yan’an Formation in China - expand knowledge of small-bodied vertebrates in East Asia during the Middle Jurassic period.

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🕷️Preserved in #Eocene Baltic amber, an impressive new #fossil of a harvestman (Arachnida, Opiliones) with unique features on its pedipalps emerges!

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This systematic review compiles 726 fossil records of Chilean insects, arachnids and myriapods from Carboniferous to Quaternary, exposing key gaps in South America's paleoentomology.

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A newly described Late Miocene small-vertebrate assemblage from the Ouarzazate Basin refines North Africa’s biochronological framework and paints a picture of temperate freshwater habitats in an open, semi‑arid landscape ~8.7 Ma ago.

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Fossil shark teeth from Pliocene Tuscany show the first evidence that 𝑂𝑠𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑥 "zombie worms" exploit shark tooth dentine in the wild.

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Apidorhynchid fossils from the Late-Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago include specimens with prey fish stuck in their mouths and stomachs.

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A unique small alligatoroid fossil from the Middle Eocene Clarno Formation in Oregon provides insights into alligatoroid diversity and biogeography, suggesting potential Asian ties.

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Researchers report the first fossil record of frogs and snakes from Taiwan, based on Middle Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage recovered from the Chochen–Tsailiao area.

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A new mite genus and species, found in Cretaceous amber in Myanmar, represents the first formally described fossil species in Chyzeriidae and displays an unusual feature likely used for defense.

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"It exhibits very peculiar morphologies including fore-, mid-, and hindlegs nearly equal in robustness, and exceptionally stout femora in all three pairs of legs."

Researchers describe a unique, 'weird' Mesozoic cricket based on a well-preserved specimen from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber in northern Myanmar.

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