Artist’s reconstruction of mating ostracods. Credit: YANG Dinghu Small bivalved crustacean ostracods are the most abundant fossil arthropods since the Ordovician and play an important…
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Field site in Ramnagar, India. Credit: Christopher Gilbert The 13-million-year-old gibbon ancestor fills major gaps in the primate fossil record. A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in…
Life restoration of Lystrosaurus in a state of torpor. Credit: Crystal Shin Researchers discover Fossil evidence of ‘hibernation-like’ state in tusks of 250-million-year-old Antarctic animal.…
Closeup of the stomach area of a fossil ichthyosaur, Guizhouichthyosaurus, showing part of the body of another large marine reptile. The ichthyosaur had swallowed its…
This image shows the ichthyosaur specimen with its stomach contents visible as a block that extrudes from its body. Credit: Ryosuke Motani When paleontologists digging…
Researchers discover a worker of the hell ant Ceratomyrmex ellenbergeri grasping a nymph of Caputoraptor elegans (Alienoptera) preserved in amber dated to ~99 Ma. Credit:…
Nostrils located on the top of the snout and curved teeth, perfectly adapted for catching slippery prey: The skull of Tanystropheus has several clear adaptations…
The classic dinosaur family tree has two subdivisions of early dinosaurs at its base: the Ornithischians, or bird-hipped dinosaurs, and the Saurischians, or lizard-hipped dinosaurs.…
This illustration shows a life restoration of a pod of Ankylorhiza tiedemani hunting. Credit: Robert W Boessenecker A report in the journal Current Biology on July 9…
Co-author Anne-Laure Decombeix excavating the Barraba fossil site during an expedition in 2013. Credit: Antoine Champreux Antoine Champreux, a PhD student in the Global Ecology…
(Click image for full view.) This is an artist impression of Titanichthys. Credit: Mark Witton (used with permission) Scientists from the University of Bristol and…
An illustration of Calcaivis, an early relative of ostriches and cassowaries that lived 52 million years ago, showing its iridescent feathers. Credit: Velizar Simeonovski Cassowaries…
The image was drawn from a complete, 3-dimensional fossil discovered in Madagascar. The unusually large mammal, named Adalatherium, is part of a group of mammals…
Two Spinosaurus hunt Onchopristis, a prehistoric sawfish, in the waters of the Kem Kem river system in what is now Morocco. Credit: Jason Treat, NG…
Predators abound on land, in the air and in water some 95 million years on the shores of northern Africa — as shown by the…
The Broken Hill (Kabwe 1) skull is one of the best-preserved fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Credit: Natural History Museum London. Griffith University scientists have led…
Artist’s rendering of Ikaria wariootia. Credit: Sohail Wasif/UCR A wormlike creature that lived more than 555 million years ago is the earliest bilaterian. A team…
[embedded content] An ancient fossil found in Canada reveals new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins. An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil…
Artist’s impression of dinosaurs on prehistoric mudflat. Credit: Jon Hoad They are among the most recognizable dinosaurs … now paleontologists have discovered that stegosaurs left…
A tiny lizard forefoot of the genus Anolis is trapped in amber that is about 15 to 20 million years old. Credit: © Jonas Barthel…