A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social behavior. A new international study shows that this vital sense leaves a ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

The most complete known Australopithecus fossil, dubbed “Little Foot,” now has a face, albeit ...

British scientists reveal a nearly complete pliosaur skull with jaws locked in place, shedding light on Jurassic ocean predators.

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s new Pachycephalosaurus skull sheds light on enigmatic group of dinosaurs and will be on display during the holiday season Jack Tamisiea The museum recently ...

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