“Evolution sometimes seems to favor the extravagant over the practical.”
Paleontology
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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...
New research challenges previous theories suggesting the two young canines were domesticated dogs and reveals their surprising...
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...
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.
