sea-lilies

Major shift in marine life occurred 33 million years later

Fossil record reveals changes in Earth’s movement and rotation

Magyarosuchus fitosi

Jurassic fossil tail tells of missing link in crocodile family tree

Hyneria lindae

25 years of fossil collecting yields clearest picture of extinct 12-foot...

Ichthyornis dispar

Scientists find the first bird beak, right under their noses

A Dickinsonia fossil animal of the Ediacaran era.

Ediacara Biota flourished in bacterially rich marine habitats

Gigantic concretions formed in mudstone on New Zealand's Moeraki coast; about 50 million years old. The present research shows that even concretions of this size formed very rapidly, within several decades.

Cracking open the formation of fossil concretions

This figure shows microwear patterns on the teeth of three theropods.

Dinosaurs’ tooth wear sheds light on their predatory lives

Peritresius martini turtle

New ancestor of modern sea turtles found in Alabama

Mammoth

Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to prehistoric humans

A scene from 232 million years ago, during the Carnian Pluvial Episode after which dinosaurs took over.

Dinosaurs ended – and originated – with a bang!

Platylithophycus cretaceus specimen. The scale bar is 5 centimeters.

First an alga, then a squid, enigmatic fossil is actually a...

CT-rendered chimpanzee cranium (left) with enlarged image of a virtually extracted molar (middle).

The secret life of teeth: Evo-devo models of tooth development

Ecological restoration of moths in the Cretaceous Burmese amber forest.

Fossil study sheds light on ancient butterfly wing colors

Female (top) and male (below) of the ostracod Cypideis salebrosa.

Scientists Understand the Role of Sexual Selection in Extinction

Teeth from the Gadoufaoua deposit (Niger). The scale bar represents 2 cm. From left to right: teeth of a giant crocodile, Sarcosuchus imperator, a spinosaurid, a non-spinosaurid theropod (abelisaurid or carcharodontosaurid), a pterosaur, a hadrosaurid (a herbivorous dinosaur), a pycnodont (fish), and a small crocodylomorph.

The dinosaur menu, as revealed by calcium

Shonisaurus

Giant ichthyosaur is one of largest animals ever

Ichthyosaur

Prehistoric reptile pregnant with octuplets

The 170 million-year-old tracks were made in a muddy lagoon off the north-east coast of what is now the Isle of Skye Credit: University of Edinburgh/PA Wire

World’s largest dinosaur found in Scotland

This image depicts a reconstruction of what the extinct monitor lizard might have looked like.

Extinct monitor lizard had four eyes, fossil evidence shows

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