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

Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of gigantic sauropod dinosaur, Tongnanlong zhimingi, from the Late ...

Ancient proteins from a 20-million-year-old rhino tooth are transforming our understanding of evolution. Researchers have ...

A newly uncovered 225-million-year-old fossil challenges everything we knew about early dinosaurs.

CT scans of Cretaceous fossils reveal seven ancient worm species that bored into marine bones and shaped deep-sea ecosystems.

A newly discovered dinosaur species, Pulaosaurus Qinglong, found in China, offers groundbreaking insights into Jurassic ...

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of ...

Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

A new Simon Fraser University-led study reveals interbreeding between humans and their ancient cousins, Neanderthals, as the likely origin of a neurological condition estimated to impact up to one per ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

A fossilized rhino tooth reveals ancient proteins, pushing back the timeline of rhino evolution by millions of years.

Proteins from an ancient rhino tooth unearthed in the Canadian Arctic have allowed scientists to look much deeper into the ...