AP – Scientists may have found the great, great, great, etc., grandfather of the famous fossil Lucy.

SPACE.com – If extraterrestrial life exists on Jupiter’s moon Europa, instead of deploying
probes to drill past its ice shell to look for aliens in the ocean below, one
might just go fossil-hunting on the icy surface.

LiveScience.com – The world’s oldest known example of a fig wasp has been identified
from the Isle of Wight. Dating back 34 million years, the fossil wasp looks
almost identical to the modern species, suggesting the specialized insect has
remained virtually unchanged for at least that long.

LiveScience.com – The long necks of the largest dinosaurs that ever lived
might have been raised high after all, a new study now suggests.

AFP – A group of US paleontologists said Friday it has unearthed a new species of dinosaurs standing some six feet tall and weighing up to 4.5 tonnes, with the longest horns of all.

LiveScience.com – A tubby dinosaur sporting horns each the length of a baseball
bat roamed what is now Mexico some 72 million years ago.

AP – Last fall, a fossil skeleton named “Ardi” shook up the field of human evolution. Now, some scientists are raising doubts about what exactly the creature from Ethiopia was and what kind of landscape it inhabited.

AFP – A surprise find of three skull bones in western Hungary has prompted palaeontologists to rethink the story of horned dinosaurs, a clan that includes triceratops, the mighty prong-headed dino that is a favourite children’s toy.

LiveScience.com – It’s not the mythical kraken, but an ancient creature belonging to the largest, nimblest and probably smartest group of invertebrates has jumped out of the fossil record with a different identity than previously thought. That finding restructures a branch on the evolutionary tree.

LiveScience.com – Horned dinosaurs may have hopped across islands to make
their way into Europe, researchers now reveal.