Researchers find crocodile species that likely preyed on early humans. Millions of years ago, giant dwarf crocodiles inhabited Africa that loved to eat our human…
Uncovering the evolution of any set of living creatures is a complex and highly meticulous task for researchers, and various theories and approaches that may…
Researchers identify ancient birds behind prehistoric giant eggs A years-long scientific controversy in Australia about what animal is the true mother of gigantic primordial eggs…
Research reveals yunnanozoans as the oldest known stem vertebrates. New findings answer questions in the fossil record. The puzzling gap in the fossil record that…
Famous Sterkfontein Caves deposit is 1 million years older than previously thought. New dates for Australopithecus-bearing Sterkfontein Cave deposit places South African hominin fossils at…
The earth doesn’t give up its ancient secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils…
The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow…
Despite a land area of just 148 square miles (384 km2), the Isle of Wight, an island off England, is one of the richest dinosaur…
Paleontologists have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land hunters. Spinosaurids, or spinosauridae (meaning “spined lizards”) is a family of carnivorous theropod…
Giraffes are quite distinctive due to their extremely long necks. In fact, their necks can be as long as 7.9 feet (2.4 m). Even though…
Metacommunity analysis suggests succession, not mass extinction, explains the Ediacaran diversity drop. Early animals developed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, setting…
Evidence that the mysterious ancient fish-like vertebrate Palaeospondylus was likely one of the earliest ancestors of four-limbed animals, including humans, has been discovered by the…
An international team of researchers has discovered a new type of fossilization. Discovery of ‘ghost’ fossils reveals plankton resilience to past global warming events. An…
Fossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their environment, and where to place them in the tree of life….
Glowing spider fossils prompt breakthrough study of how they were preserved at Aix-en-Provence. A geologic formation near Aix-en-Provence, France, is renowned as one of the…
Diverse life forms may have evolved earlier than previously thought. Diverse microbial life existed on Earth at least 3.75 billion years ago, suggests a new…
The fossilized remains of the triceratops specimen known as ‘Big John’ display injuries to the skull that may have occurred during combat with another triceratops,…
A recent study published in PeerJ examines the preservation of unique ichthyosaur fossils using cutting-edge research methodologies. In the final, large group of ichthyosaurs, one…
