The hominins who lived at Gantangqing lived a heavily plant-based subsistence lifestyle. They had access to meat, and also ...

Understanding how ancient species arranged themselves in space is a key puzzle in paleoecology, but direct evidence of how ...

With each new discovery in paleontology, we are gradually moving away from the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs ...

Dancing lessons, sick leave, wishing for relief from a toothache… Life for a Shang Dynasty prince more than 3,000 years ago wasn't so different from ours. These moments live on in oracle bones and ...

The anatomy of a Chinese fossil offers a hint that birdsong may be as old as the dinosaurs themselves. Since the 1930s, ...

Researchers detect some unique features in two specimens belonging to Pareiasauria, leading to the discovery of a new species ...

One day in the Middle Miocene, some 11 million to 16 million years ago, a roughly 4.8-metre-long caiman ate a terror bird 1.

Ancient lungfish jaws tell a complex evolutionary story. New 3D analysis uncovers surprising feeding adaptations. Ancient ...

Some animals seem out of place at first glance. Sometimes that can be chalked up to the limits of imagination, but other ...