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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2025.
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Flora
Plants
Main article: 2025 in paleobotanyArthropods
Main articles: 2025 in arthropod paleontology and 2025 in paleoentomologyFish
Main article: 2025 in paleoichthyologyReptiles
Main articles: 2025 in reptile paleontology and 2025 in archosaur paleontologySynapsids
Mammals
Main article: 2025 in paleomammalogyForaminifera
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Kaminski & Korin |
Eocene |
Rashrashiyah Formation |
A member of Pseudogaudryininae. The type species is F. sirhanensis. |
History of life in general
- Zong et al. (2025) report the discovery of a new assemblage of well-preserved fossils (the Huangshi Fauna) in the Silurian (Rhuddanian) strata in south China, including fossils of sponges, cephalopods, arthropods and carbon film fossils of uncertain identity.
Other research
- Cowen et al. (2025) study the geochemistry of dental tissue of Devonian fish fossils from Svalbard (Norway) and Cretaceous lungfish and plesiosaur fossils from Australia, and interpret their findings as indicative of preservation of the primary chemical composition of the bioapatite in the studied fossils.
Paleoclimate
- Evidence indicating that abrupt climate changes during the Last Glacial Period increased pyrogenic methane emissions and global wildfire extent is presented by Riddell-Young et al. (2025).
References
- Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
- Kaminski, M. A.; Korin, A. (2025). "Flabellogaudryina n.gen, a new agglutinated foraminiferal genus from the Eocene of Saudi Arabia". Micropaleontology. 71 (1): 93–100. doi:10.47894/mpal.71.1.04.
- Zong, R.; Liu, Y.; Liu, Q.; Ma, J.; Liu, S. (2025). "A new exceptionally preserved fauna from a lowest Silurian black shale: Insights into the recovery of deep-water ecosystems after the Late Ordovician mass extinction". Geology. doi:10.1130/G53042.1.
- Cowen, M. B.; de Rafélis, M.; Ségalen, L.; Kear, B. P.; Dumont, M.; Žigaitė, Ž. (2025). "Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains". PeerJ. 13. e18763. doi:10.7717/peerj.18763.
- Riddell-Young, B.; Lee, J. E.; Brook, E. J.; Schmitt, J.; Fischer, H.; Bauska, T. K.; Menking, J. A.; Iseli, R.; Clark, J. R. (2025). "Abrupt changes in biomass burning during the last glacial period". Nature. 637 (8044): 91–96. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08363-3. PMID 39743610.