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beetle's morphology

These beetles have successfully freeloaded for 100 million years

Simbakubwa kutokaafrika

Fossils found in museum drawer in Kenya belong to gigantic carnivore

Gobihadros mongoliensis

Gobihadros, a new species of Mongolian hadrosaur

skull of the Coelacanth's foetus

Coelacanth reveals new insights into skull evolution

The best-preserved fossil of the group includes the skull, forelimbs, part of a backbone and a partial hind limb of a small, juvenile frog now known as Electrorana limoae.

Small fossils with big applications – BP Gulf of Mexico time...

Fossilized skull parts from ancient elephant relatives

Ancient ‘Texas Serengeti’ had elephant-like animals

dinosaur skeleton

Perfectly preserved dinosaur skin found in Korea

Sollasina cthulhu

‘Cthulhu’ fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers

The bone is from a new species of hominin.

New species of early human found in the Philippines

Cricosaurus bambergensis

Jurassic crocodile discovery sheds light on reptiles’ family tree

Peregocetus

Ancient, four-legged whale with otter-like features found along the coast of...

lambeosaurine (crested 'duck-billed' dinosaur)

First-confirmed occurrence of a lambeosaurine dinosaur found on Alaska’s North Slope

Fossilized fish piled one atop another

66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor

Scientists from The Australian National University have discovered the have discovered that 558 million-year-old Dickinsonia fossils do not reveal all of the features of the earliest known animals, which potentially had mouths and guts.

Mystery shrouding oldest animal fossils solved

Fossil whale barnacles from the Pleistocene were retrieved from the Burica Peninsula of Panama for analyses.

Fossil barnacles reveal prehistoric whale migrations

Scientists say the fossils have been "exquisitely" preserved. Credit: Ao Sun

Huge fossil discovery made in China’s Hubei province

Tyrannosaurus rex

World’s Biggest Tyrannosaurus rex

Feathers revealed in a ~125 million-year-old fossil of a bird hatchling shows it came "out of the egg running". Specimen MPCM-LH-26189 from Los Hoyas, Spain is preserved between two slabs of rock: (a) 'counter' slab under normal light (b) Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence (LSF) image combining the results from both rock slabs. This reveals brown patches around the specimen that include clumps of elongate feathers associated with the neck and wings and a single long vaned feather associated with the left wing. (c) Normal light image of the main slab. Scale is 5mm.

Ancient birds out of the egg running

Daihua sanqiong

Half-a-billion-year-old fossil reveals the origins of comb jellies

Thrinaxodon

Mammals’ unique arms started evolving before the dinosaurs existed

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