2025

Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, fossil-found places, paleontologists and contributors to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology as well as Natural History Museums on stamps, postmarks and postal stationeries issued in 2025

If you know about any other Philatelic item related to Paleontology or Paleoanthropology, issued this year which is not mentioned below, please inform me.


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Announcements:
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Later this year:
  • 03.09.2025 Poland - "Dinosaurs" - set of 3 stamps (postponed from 2023).
  • 03.11.2025 Taiwan - "Dinosaurs", Souvenir-Sheet.
  • ??.12.2025 Peru - "Prehistoric Animals".
  • ?.2025 Kyrgyzstan - "Prehistoric fauna of Kyrgyzstan".
Europa: Archaeological Discoveries stamp of Jersey 2025
Happy 185th Birthday, Penny Black and Two Penny Blue!
The first adhesive postage stamps were issued in Great Britain on May 6th, 1840.


Some Books about Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, coming soon or issued recently

Uncovering dinosaur behavior A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
More Paleophilately related books can be found on the Books page of this site.




Official stamps directly related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, paleontologists

09.05.2025 - Portugal [O2]
EUROPA 2025 stamps of Portugal -  Lapedo child
08.05.2025 - Gibraltar [1] 05.05.2025 - Jersey [1] 11.02.2025 - San Marino
EUROPA 2025 stamps of Gibraltar -  Neanderthal EUROPA 2025 stamps of Jersey -  Mammoth skull Prehistoric whale Titanocetus on stamp of San Marino 2025

Notes:

[1]
The banner of the 2025 EUROPA stamps competition with a fossil image
The banner of "The 2025 EUROPA stamps competition". Image credit: the home page of EUROPA stamps (accessed on May 9th, 2025)
The Norway's EUROPA 2025 stamp The French EUROPA 2025 stamp
The Norway's EUROPA 2025 stamp. The French EUROPA 2025 stamp.
EUROPA stamps are special stamps issued by European postal administrations/enterprises and bears the official EUROPA logo, a PostEurop registered trademark under the aegis of PostEurop in which Europe is the central theme.
EUROPA stamps underlines cooperation in the posts domain, taking into account promotion of philately. They also build awareness of the common roots, culture and history of Europe and its common goals. As such, EUROPA stamp issues are among the most collected and most popular stamps in the world. Since the first issue in 1956, EUROPA stamps have been a tangible symbol of Europe’s desire for closer integration and cooperation.
The theme of the year 2025, chosen by PostEurop, is devoted to "National Archaeological Discoveries".
Some of these stamps show tools or art objects from the "Ice Age" (Germany), fossils of Neanderthal (Gibraltar) and the "Ice Age" megafauna (Jersey - mammoth skull).

One of the EUROPA stamps of Norway shows a skeleton of a dog (not a fossil) with a collar from the 16th century, found at Lendbreen Pass in Jotunheimen.

In March 2025, the Post Authority of France announced the issue of their EUROPA stamp, featuring a sauropod dinosaur. In the following month, the sauropod stamp was replaced, as inappropriate to the Archaeological Discoveries topic. Although 720,000 copies have already been printed, they were not be released. A new design, showing a recent archaeological discovery (wine jug made in Greece), was issued instead.

Rejected EUROPA 2025 stamps of Portugal -  sauropod dinosaur


[2] The stamp in the Souvenir-Sheet shows the famous Lapedo child from "Lagar Velho 1" excavation site. It is believed to be a hybrid that had a Neanderthal parent and an anatomically modern human parent (Homo sapiens). The bones of the skeleton present a mosaic of European early modern human and Neanderthal features. This morphological mosaic suggests interbreeding between late archaic and early modern humans in Iberia, challenging the idea of a complete replacement of Neanderthals by early modern humans. It highlights the complex cultural and biological processes that contributed to the emergence of modern humans. [R2]



Some personalized stamps related to Paleontology: dinosaurs

05.02.2025 - Austria [SP1]
Dinosaurs on personalized stamp of Austria 2025

Notes:

[SP1] The Mini-Sheet of 8 personalized stamps and a tab in the middle was offered by philatelic bureau of Austria at price of Euro 11.00 for subscribes or Euro 12.99 for others, while the value of these stamps is Euro 8.60. Neither technical nor background information were provided.



Some stamps to consider: prehistoric animals as art objects (cave paintings)

09.05.2025 - Monaco [1] [O2] 08.05.2025 - Germany 27.03.2025 - Spain [O1]
EUROPA 2025 stamps of Monaco -  flit tool EUROPA 2025 stamps of Germany -  Ice Age figures National Museum and Research Center of Altamira on stamp of Spain 2025

Notes:

[O1] National Museum and Research Center of Altamira is a center dedicated to the conservation of, research into, and the sharing of information about the cave of Altamira in Santillana del Mar (Cantabria), Spain, named a World Heritage Site by Unesco. The museum offers prehistoric technology workshops to visitors, as well as a permanent exhibition called Times of Altamira, which contains objects from Altamira as well as those from other palaeolithic caves of Cantabria. [R1]

[O2] The skull in the middle of the bottom side of the stamp is a lynx skull, not a skull of a prehistoric animal.



Commemorative Postmarks directly related to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, human ancestors, paleontologists

Legend is here

12.02.2025 - India [Sp] 11.02.2025 - San Marino [FDC]
Marine fossils on postmark of India 2025 Prehistoric whale Titanocetus on stamp of San Marino 2025




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