For decades, researchers believed they were looking at fish remains. They were way off the mark.
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New research shows that woolly mammoths roamed farther east than scientists previously thought.
Paleontologists have long debated whether small tyrannosaurs were their own species or simply teenage T. rexes. This...
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...
Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of...
Spicomellus clearly didn’t need sharp teeth to make an impression.