It’s “an important reminder that evolutionary paths can be unpredictable.”
The amber fossils preserve an impressive array of ancient bugs and plants that scientists are using to piece together a previously unknown Cretaceous ecosystem.
A revisit to a pterosaur-abundant fossil site uncovered how two baby pterosaurs met an unusually chilling death 150 million years ago.
Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Spicomellus clearly didn't need sharp teeth to make an impression.
“Evolution sometimes seems to favor the extravagant over the practical.”
The Romans may have treasured the trilobite fossil for its presumed magical or protective powers.
A handful of bite marks on a fossil tens of millions of years old speaks to an ancient tussle between two terrifying apex predators.
By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the reptile’s back like a fan.
The brain of an ancient sea creature bears an uncanny resemblance to those of modern spiders, challenging the conventional notion of where spiders originated.
New research challenges previous theories suggesting the two young canines were domesticated dogs and reveals their surprising last meal.
This new tyrannosauroid serves as an evolutionary link between the colossal T. rex and its tinier ancestors.
CT scans, UV light, and careful prep work uncovered feathers that may have given the ancient dinosaur liftoff.
Three decades ago, scientists began to find razor-sharp teeth from predators that had no business being there.
The paleontological treasure sat in a fossil collection in Brazil, unnoticed.
New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era.
Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.
Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it might represent a whole new branch.
A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago.
