An example of what a complete fish fossil coelacanth looks like. This one is from the Jurassic of German. Credit: Professor David Martill, University of…
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Stromatolites at Shark Bay, Western Australia. Credit: UNSW Sydney/Brendan Burns As the Mars Rover sets out to look for evidence of life on another planet,…
Microscopic image of the fungus-like filamentous microfossils. Credit: Andrew Czaja of University of Cincinnati When you think of fungi, what comes to mind may be…
Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois). Credit: Jenny – Flickr CC BY 2.0 Fossil Burrows Point to Ancient Seafloor Colonization by Giant Marine Worms Giant ambush-predator worms,…
The newly described python species Messelopython freyi is the world’s oldest known fossil record of a python. Credit: Senckenberg Fossils suggest that the constrictors’ origin…
Remnants of feather sheaths on the wings of the fossil bird Archaeopteryx, shows the earliest evidence of a complex moulting strategy. The white arrows indicate…
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…
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…