"Enantiornithes" Tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird

127 million year old baby bird fossil sheds light on avian...

Calatayud-Daroca Basin in Central Spain.

Fossilised plant leaf wax provides new tool for understanding ancient climates

Fossilized bubbles and cyanobacterial fabric from 1.6 billion-year-old phosphatized microbial mats from Vindhyan Supergroup, central India.

Tiny bubbles of oxygen got trapped 1.6 billion years ago

Transmitted-light, cross-polarized-light, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of starch-bearing Lagenicula-type megaspore from the Baode section, north China. AL Details of the starch grain in D (rectangle) in transmitted light. Note the hilum (small depression) in center, and Y-shaped fissures.

Permian carbo-loading: How starchy treats helped build an ancient world

Euoplocephalus

Flipside of a dinosaur mystery: ‘Bloat-and-float’ explains belly-up ankylosaur fossils

A tiny extinct rail (30-40g) is overshadowed by a regular duck.

Miniscule flightless birds have lived in New Zealand’s wetlands for millions...

This is crushed dentine from a Woolly Mammoth for DNA extraction.

Complete genomes of extinct and living elephants sequenced

Ground-running bird model may predict bipedal dinosaur locomotion.

Locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs might be predicted from that of ground-running...

The fossil Waptia from the Burgess Shale, Canada

Soft tissue fossil clues could help search for ancient life on...

Footprints of mammoths, dated to 43,000 years ago, are seen in a portion of a trackway that was uncovered by researchers in 2017 in an ancient dry lake bed in Lake County, Oregon.

Ancient trail of Columbian mammoths uncovered in south-central Oregon

When it comes to extinction, body size matters

This is seismic reflection data.

Tiny fossils, huge slides: Are diatoms the key to Earth’s biggest...

insect fossilized in amber

Researchers uncover New Zealand’s first fossils preserved in amber

Mansourasaurus, New Egyptian dinosaur

Rare dinosaur discovery in Egypt could signal more finds

Exhibit Museum Replica Urtier Prehistoric Times

Dinosaurs were ‘too successful for their own good’

Clevosaurus cambrica

South Wales fossil identified as new species of ancient reptile

“Mrs” Ples’ tooth sockets has made scientists think differently about “her” sex. Credit: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History

A study of the tooth sockets of famous skull leads to...

Wahlisaurus massarae

Rare ichthyosaur is only second known example

Candelarhynchus padillai

Child helps paleontologists in discovery of new ancient fish species

The image shows a reconstruction of Proganochelys (the oldest turtle with a complete shell) as it would have appeared in life.

New study sheds light on the brain evolution of turtles

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