A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor species, according to a…
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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…
Scenic Christmas Island shot. Credit: The University of Queensland The world’s animal distribution map will need to be redrawn and textbooks updated, after researchers discovered…
[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…
Deformation of the calcaneus (tarsal bone) in wild boars reared in captivity compared to wild boars in their natural environment. The colored dots indicate the…
The fossilized leaves belonging to the Welwitschiophyllum plant. Credit: University of Portsmouth A remarkable new treasure has been found by scientists from the University of…
Using dental microwear texture analysis on from a 28,500-year-old fossil site, researchers found evidence of of early-stage domestication of dogs. Analysis of Paleolithic-era teeth from…
A group of Russian and German paleontologists have described a previously unknown genus and species of prehistoric salamanders. The new amphibian is named Egoria malashichevi…
Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. His…
This is a life-reconstruction of the 200-million-year-old dinosaur track-maker from Mount Morgan. Credit: Dr. Anthony Romilio The dinosaur in the cupboard under the stairs. The…
Reconstructed life appearance of the extinct European straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus in frontal view, based on remains uncovered from the Neumark-Nord 1 site in Saxony-Anhalt,…
Wulong bohaiensis. The skeleton described in the new paper is remarkably complete. The name means “Dancing Dragon” in Chinese and was named in part to…
Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of researchers.…
Frogs, like mammals, originated as predominantly nocturnal animals, but maintained the ability to communicate acoustically after switching to being active during the day. Credit: Peter…
A fossilized cloudinomorph from the Montgomery Mountains near Pahrump, Nevada. This is representative of the fossil that was analyzed in the study. Credit: University of…
Upper specimen: Stygocapitella josemariobrancoi from a beach close to Plymouth, UK: Lower specimen: Stygocapitella furcata from the 4th of July beach on San Juan island,…
Because it took T. rex up to twenty years to reach adult size, the tyrant king probably underwent drastic changes as it matured. A study…
Map of North America during the Cenomanian age (96 million years ago) showing the four turtle families newly discovered at the Arlington Archosaur Site (AAS).…