The 3D braincase of Shuyu. Credit: IVPP The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear,…
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Illustration of White Rock spinosaurid by Anthony Hutchings. Credit: UoS/A Hutchings Despite a land area of just 148 square miles (384 km2), the Isle of…
Illustration of White Rock spinosaurid by Anthony Hutchings. Credit: UoS/A Hutchings Paleontologists have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land hunters. Spinosaurids,…
Intermale-competitions of giraffoid, foreground: Discokeryx xiezhi, background: Giraffa camelopardalis. Credit: WANG Yu and GUO Xiaocong Giraffes are quite distinctive due to their extremely long necks.…
Palaeospondylus as reconstructed by synchrotron radiation x-ray computed tomography. Credit: RIKEN Evidence that the mysterious ancient fish-like vertebrate Palaeospondylus was likely one of the earliest…
Artistic reconstruction of mating position in Olenoides serratus. Credit: Holly Sullivan Fossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their…
Fossilized spider from the Aix-en-Provence Formation in France seen in hand sample overlain with fluorescent microscopy image of the same fossil. Under normal lighting the…
Ichthyosaur ill. Credit: Esther van Hulsen A new study published in PeerJ uses modern methods to understand the preservation of unique ichthyosaur fossils. One complete…
Spinosaurus, the longest predatory dinosaur known, is opening its elongate jaws, studded with conical teeth, to catch a sawskate. Contrary to previous suggestions, this animal…
Spinosaurus, the longest predatory dinosaur known, is opening its elongate jaws, studded with conical teeth, to catch a sawskate. Contrary to previous suggestions, this animal…
An artistic reconstruction of the newly described 328-million-year-old vampyropod. Credit: © K. Whalen Description of exceptionally preserved fossil pushes back age of Vampyropoda by nearly…
Diegoalerus with fossil. Credit: San Diego Natural History Museum Paleontologists describe sabre-toothed mammal new to science, offering view into evolution of meat-eaters. The fossil, housed…
Hail to the squid — A vampyropod fit for a president Researchers at Yale and the American Museum of Natural History have identified the earliest…
The sculpture created by the researchers. Credit: Johan Joelsson Geologists at Lund University in Sweden have mapped 300 years of research on the prehistoric marine…
Hypothetical life restoration of MOR 7029. Note that the pulmonary disease infecting this animal would not have been externally evident, but the probable pneumonia-like outward…
An illustration showing the newly discovered fossil birds (Meemannavis the larger one on the left in the center foreground, and Brevidentavis open-mouthed on the right).…
Life reconstruction of Mambawakale ruhuhu by Gabriel Ugueto, who retains the copyright. Only the skull, mandible and a few postcranial elements are known for Mambawakale…
Hypothetical life restoration of MOR 7029. Note that the pulmonary disease infecting this animal would not have been externally evident, but the probable pneumonia-like outward…
Reconstruction of a full-scale Megalodon and a set of teeth at the Museo de la Evolución de Puebla in Mexico. Credit: Luis Alvaz Extinct shark’s…
Artist’s illustration of the Megalodon. However, new scientific research shows that no one knows what the Megalodon really looked like. Latest study reveals no one…