
Monkeylike Animals Once Lived in the Arctic, New Fossils Show
Two newly identified primatelike mammals once lived in the Arctic, which could help us understand how species there today may adapt as the climate heats up
Two newly identified primatelike mammals once lived in the Arctic, which could help us understand how species there today may adapt as the climate heats up
A rare flower encased in amber is the largest one ever found and dates from around 40 million years ago
Fossil trackways may show tyrannosaur tykes teaming up
Two-million-year-old DNA, the world's oldest, reveals that mastodons once roamed forests in Greenland’s far northern reaches
Watching fish rot for more than two months disproves a long-standing fossilization theory
Walking on all fours helped shape the panda's “thumb”
Geneticist Svante Pääbo reconstructed the genome of long-extinct human relatives, showing we have more in common with Neandertals than previously thought
Svante Pääbo’s work on sequencing the DNA of Neandertals and Denisovans, which won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, revealed surprising interbreeding among human species...
Fish fossils from Western Australia preserve the oldest 3-D hearts, livers, stomachs and intestines in a jawed vertebrate
The fossil-filled volcanic crater Foulden Maar was almost destroyed. A new book documents its ancient-ecosystem wonders
A small, speedy, omnivorous dinosaur was a forerunner of Brachiosaurus and other giant plant-eaters
New fossil analysis offers the first physical evidence of this launch strategy
Geologic evidence for a freezing arctic suggests dinosaurs could have weathered an epoch-ending volcanic winter
Some species were constrained by their food sources, while others ranged widely
The first known male appendage from trilobites has been found in a 508-million-year-old fossil
They scurried in the shadows of dinosaurs for millions of years until a killer space rock created a new world of evolutionary opportunity
An amazingly well-preserved fossil suggests the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs also had some type of feather or feather precursor
A well-preserved fossil introduces a new species that lived in what is now California around 42 million years ago
New fossils are changing a decades-old story about the species that roamed the Mediterranean 80 million years ago.
Researchers want their models to inspire more accurate reconstructions of extinct animals such as mammoths and saber-toothed cats
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