In search of a new adventure, Craig Munns went back to school. Now, at 65, he spends his days examining long-vanished life forms ...
Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...
New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...
Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...
If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...
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 ...
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 ...
In a groundbreaking find, researchers have discovered traces of ancient microbes in an unexpected location. This stunning revelation could change how we understand the origins of life on Earth. The ...
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 ...