It’s “an important reminder that evolutionary paths can be unpredictable.”
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The amber fossils preserve an impressive array of ancient bugs and plants that scientists are using to...
A revisit to a pterosaur-abundant fossil site uncovered how two baby pterosaurs met an unusually chilling death...
“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...
By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out...
The brain of an ancient sea creature bears an uncanny resemblance to those of modern spiders, challenging...
Fossilized footprints from Australia are forcing paleontologists to rethink the tetrapod family tree.
CT scans, UV light, and careful prep work uncovered feathers that may have given the ancient dinosaur...