For decades, researchers believed they were looking at fish remains. They were way off the mark.
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The bones are exceptionally well-preserved, and the skeleton is “incredibly complete,” the researchers say.
Two duck-billed dinosaur carcasses were preserved in a thin layer of clay for 66 million years. Now,...
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...
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...
