Dominic Stratford of Stony Brook University and Tyler Faith collect a possible hominin tooth found in sediments cemented to the roof of a cave in South Africa’s Cango Valley. The fragile specimen will remain in South Africa and be CT scanned. Credit: Lauren Schroeder, University of Toronto Mississauga

South African caves filled with fossil clues to Pleistocene Epoch

Credit: John Friel, Alabama Museum of Natural History

Oddity from Alabama creek is tooth of dinosaur that reached 30...

Fossil studies of the extinct predator Dissacus praenuntius offer clues as to how ancient animals responded to environmental changes. The ancient omnivore was about the size of a jackal or a coyote. Credit: ДиБгд, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

An ancient predator’s bone-crunching diet shift offers clues on surviving climate...

a, A complete specimen with antennae and limbs (USNM PAL 65510). b, Limbs of GSC 34695a showing various degrees of flexure and extension. Credit: Sarah R. Losso

Ancient trilobite limbs reveal unique walking and burrowing abilities in prehistoric...

The Atapuerca Reindeer Fossil: an Upper Deciduous Third Molar from a Juvenile . Credit: Jan van der Made

Fossilized reindeer tooth reveals glacial-era fauna in ancient Iberian Peninsula

Plesionectes longicollum. Credit: Peter Nickolaus

New long-necked marine reptile species discovered in Germany’s famous Jurassic fossil...

Credit: Sanjana Banerjee, NC State University

Tiny fossils lead to smarter robots with automated sorting

A set of Diplodocus teeth sampled by researcher Liam Norris. Credit: Liam Norris

Clues for dinosaurs’ diets found in the chemistry of their fossil...

A Tully Monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium). Credit: University of Missouri

Recreating Mazon Creek’s 300-million-year-old ecosystem

The tracks may have been made by a giant temnospondyl like Uranocentrodon senekalensis. Image © Dmitry Bogdanov, licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ancient predators and giant amphibians found in African fossil treasure trove

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