An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a whole Eurasia plant from the late Miocene epoch. Complete plant fossils are seldom found as a single ...

This is a two-part series looking at the Gray Fossil Site TDOT crews stumpled upon during a road expansion project in 2000. The site is now an active research facility complete with a museum and ...

Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 93, No. 6 (NOVEMBER 2019), pp. 1221-1233 (13 pages) The giant carnivorous phorusrhacid bird Phorusrhacos longissimus (Aves, Cariamiformes) was first described in 1887 by ...

Thirteen elasmobranch genera, four of which are identified to species, are described from the early to middle Miocene (Burdigalian–Langhian) Awa Group in southwest Japan. Springeria and Narke are the ...

It’s a show-down as old as time: grand behemouth of a marine mammal versus ancient monster of a shark. These shark–cetacean trophic interactions span eons, preserved as bite marks in our fossil record ...

In 2017, farmer Nigel McGraths stumbled on something remarkable: He was removing rocks from a field to make ready for tilling when he came across what appeared to be a leaf embedded in a rock. The ...

A huge study of fossil apes clarifies which extinct species are most closely related to humans. But it can’t resolve one of the most controversial questions in human evolution: whether the last common ...