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leptocleididae

A small plesiosaur lived in Spain 125 million years ago

Fossil Fish E. diskosomus.

Paleontology: Diversification after mass extinction

These are worm tunnels (labelled) visible in small section of rock.

500-million-year old worm ‘superhighway’ discovered in Canada

shark teeth

A rare assemblage of sharks and rays from nearshore environments of...

Amiskwia sagittiformis

Half-a-billion-year-old weird wonder worm finally gets its place in the tree...

Digital model of the skull of Leptarctus primus, showing reconstructed jaw muscle groups in red, yellow, and pink. The virtual muscles were activated in bite simulations to test the biomechanical capability of this extinct weasel relative.

Extinct weasel relative with confounding skull likely ate meat with a...

New species of tiny tyrannosaur foreshadows rise of T. rex

Adzebill skeleton

Origins of giant extinct New Zealand bird traced to Africa

Scientists excavate a dinosaur bone bed along the Colville River.

Marsupial lived among Arctic dinosaurs

This is an illustration depicting Mnyamawamtuka in its environmental setting.

New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail provides evolutionary clues for African continent

A fossil of a conifer called Cunninghamia.

New study of fossil plants shows the emergence of the Pacific...

Previously, the oldest traces of this kind found dated to approximately 600 million years ago: the Ediacaran period, also characterized by a peak in dioxygen and a proliferation in biodiversity. Scale bar: 1 cm. Credit: A. El Albani / IC2MP / CNRS - Université de Poitiers

Discovery of the oldest evidence of mobility on Earth

Megalodon extinction graphical abstract.

Giant ‘megalodon’ shark extinct earlier than previously thought

The place where the footprint was found

Neanderthal footprints found in Gibraltar

Gobiraptor reconstruction.

New oviraptorosaur species discovered in Mongolia

Eofringillirostrum boudreauxi

Earliest known seed-eating perching bird discovered in Fossil Lake, Wyoming

T. rex had an unusually flexible skull. Credit: Senckenberg

T. rex possessed a unique flexible skull

The isolated Archaeopteryx feather is the first fossil feather ever discovered. Top image, the feather as it looks today under white light. Middle image, the original drawing from 1862 by Hermann von Meyer. Bottom image, Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence (LSF) showing the halo of the missing quill. Scale bar is 1cm. Credit: Copyright The University of Hong Kong

First discovered fossil feather did not belong to iconic bird Archaeopteryx

Stunningly well-preserved fossilized soft tissues of a stylophoran have recently been discovered

These strange fossils are closely related to sea urchins

Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. This led researchers at Uppsala University to conclude that this top predator was exploiting bones for salt and marrow, a behavior often linked to mammals but seldom to archosaurs. Credit: Martin Qvarnström

The 210-million-year-old Smok was crushing bones like a hyena

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