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 ...

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

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

The skull of the Australopithecus nicknamed 'Little Foot'. (Wits University/CC BY SA 4.0) Scientists have reconstructed the ...

For the first time, the complete fossil of a 10-million-year-old beaked whale, considered the best preserved in the world, is on display.

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

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 ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

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