Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

The tiny remnant belongs to Purgatorius, one of the earliest known relatives of all primates, including humans, which first ...

A fossil on display at Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies reveals how dinosaurs in the Tyrannosaurus genus may have subdued prey, and the specimen is the focus of a new collaborative ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of ...

Learn how newly discovered Purgatorius fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin are filling gaps in the Paleocene fossil record and ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate relatives spread after the mass extinction.

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

BOZEMAN – Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. “I kept joking through that whole ...