Five early Silurian fishes from China rewrite the evolutionary story of “from fish to human.” Credit: IVPP The discovery of a fossil “treasure hoard” illuminates…
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Volumetric reconstruction of a tooth whorl viewed from its lingual side (holotype of Qianodus duplicis). The specimen is just over 2 mm in length. Credit:…
Life reconstruction of Edmontosaurus. Credit: Natee Puttapipat, CC-BY 4.0 Data from fossils and modern carcasses indicates a simple path to preserving dinosaur skin. Dinosaur “mummies”…
Artist’s representation of Thalassotitan atrox. Credit: Andrey Atuchin Paleontologists have discovered a huge new mosasaur from Morocco, named Thalassotitan atrox, which filled the apex predator…
New 3D model shows that megalodon could eat prey the size of entire killer whales. Credit: J. J. Giraldo Megalodon, the largest shark that ever…
Reconstruction of A. nikolovi sp. nov. from Bulgaria. Artwork by Velizar Simeonovski, Chicago. Credit: © Velizar Simeonovski, Chicago Fossilized teeth originally found in the 1970s…
Jurassic fish called Pachycormus. Credit: Dean Lomax An exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been discovered…
As part of the Museum’s temporary exhibition T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, which was on view from 2019-2021, visitors encountered a massive life-sized model of…
An international team that includes a University of Minnesota Twin Cities researcher has discovered a new big, meat-eating dinosaur, dubbed Meraxes gigas (illustrated above), that…
There are currently 18 living species of crocodiles. Large crocodiles can grow over 17 feet long. Researchers find crocodile species that likely preyed on early…
The SK 48 cranium of an ancient hominin, Paranthropus robustus, was one of the fossils included in the analysis of some new claims on human…
The only almost completely intact Genyornis eggshell ever discovered. It was located by N. Spooner and collected by Gifford H. Miller, South Australia. The presence…
Artistic reconstruction of the yunnanozoan from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota shows basket-like pharyngeal skeletons. Credit: Dinghua Yang Research reveals yunnanozoans as the oldest known stem…
Four different Australopithecus crania that were found in the Sterkfontein caves, South Africa. The Sterkfontein cave fill containing this and other Australopithecus fossils was dated…
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,…
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…