In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

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 ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...

These newly discovered crocodyliform eggs suggest a shift toward semi-aquatic lifestyles and humid nesting sites.

One movement in Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saëns, is called “Fossils.” A xylophone sounds like dancing bones, but it’s still a stretch to associate the short work with the Brontosaurus ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons ...

Long before modern pigs rooted through forests and farmyards, their prehistoric relatives roamed ancient landscapes. And they looked far more fantastical while doing so. Some species sported elongated ...

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Gray wolves don’t just change where they roam when the climate shifts. New research suggests they also change how they eat. In warmer periods, wolves appear to consume harder parts of carcasses, ...

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