The extinction of their competitors allowed snakes to move into new niches and diversify enormously (Credit: Joschua Knüppe).

Modern snakes evolved from a few survivors of dino-killing asteroid

fossilized teeth from M. Latidens showing where cavities formed.

Oldest known mammal cavities discovered in 55-million-year-old fossils suggests a sweet...

500-million-year-old fossil represents rare discovery of ancient animal in North America

University of Tsukuba researchers have described a new apex predator from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, which coexisted with a smaller tyrannosauroid

Who was king before Tyrannosaurus? Uzbek fossil reveals new top dino

Titanokorys gainesi reconstruction. Illustration by Lars Fields, © Royal Ontario Museum.

Massive new animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale

Entombed in limestone blocks, the newly studied fossil is the first nearly complete skeleton of a pterosaur species that was first described in 2003. Photograph by Victor Beccari

Confiscated fossil turns out to be exceptional flying reptile from Brazil

Skull fossils of amphibian. Credit: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Skull of 340 million year old animal digitally recreated, revealing secrets...

Two fossils of Brooksella alternata.

Icy waters of ‘Snowball Earth’ may have spurred early organisms to...

Fossilised Squalicorax tooth Nr. #07815 from the Jerusalem site. Credit: Omri Lernau

The City of David and the sharks’ teeth mystery

Chuandianella ovata, an extinct shrimp-like crustacean.

Paleonursery offers rare, detailed glimpse at life 518 million years ago

Upper molar of Altaynycteris aurora. Credit: Li Qiang

Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia

Uskiella spargen a small plant whose axes divide several times before bearing oval sporangia. Credit : Cyrille Prestianni

Discovery of the oldest plant fossils on the African continent!

Early lineages of mammal like this large Gobiconodon from Mongolia, outcompeted the ancestors of modern mammals in the time of dinosaurs. Credit: Corbin Rainbolt

Mammals in the time of dinosaurs held each other back

A cross-section of an 18.5 million-year-old fossil of Ampelorhiza heteroxylon. Credit: Nathan Jud/Provided

18.5 million year old vine fossil identified as new species

Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)

What can a dinosaur’s inner ear tell us? Just listen

The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans represents the starting point of human and chimpanzee evolution. Fossil apes play an essential role when it comes to reconstructing the nature of our ape ancestry. Printed with permission from © Christopher M. Smith

Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils

An enhanced image of Bicellum showing an outer wall of sausage-shaped cells enclosing an inner cell mass. Credit: Boston College

Microfossil found in Scottish Highlands could be a new insight into...

"Hollywood" specimen, same species as Teratophoneus, discovered approximately two miles north of the "Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry" on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Fearsome tyrannosaurs were social animals, study shows

Illustration showing how the three new species of fossil cloud rats might have looked. Credit: © Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum.

Fossils of ‘giant cloud rats’ discovered in Philippine caves

Rafinesquina, seen in this close-up shot, was an ancient genus of brachiopod belonging to order Strophomenida. This order survived two mass extinction events, but the second represented a ‘death sentence’ from which they were unable to recover diversity, persisting for another hundred million years as a ‘dead clade walking’ before their eventual extinction. IMAGE: Provided by Benjamin Barnes

New insights into mass extinctions

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