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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

Photographic images of the dorsal aspect of selected live velvet worm species from the Western Cape province, South Africa (A–F). Peripatopsis balfouri s.s. from Bats Cave ravine, Cape Peninsula, Table Mountain range (A). P. palmeri sp. nov., from 22 Waterfalls, Porterville (B). P. barnardi sp. nov., from the Groot Swartberg Mountains, Little Karoo (C). P. landroskoppie sp. nov., from Landroskop (B) outside Grabouw (D). P. fernkloofi sp. nov., from Fernkloof Nature Reserve, Hermanus (E) and P. limietbergi sp. nov., from Mitchell's Pass (F). Scale bar = 10 mm.

New velvet worm species a first for the arid Karoo

Life reconstruction of Mosura fentoni, art by Danielle Dufault © ROM

Palaeontologists discover 506-million-year-old predator

Professor Long compares the trackways with a modern Iguana foot.

Fossil tracks revise march of early life on Earth

Artist’s reconstruction of the new species Litoria tylerantiqua (right) and previously described species Platyplectrum casca (left) from Murgon, south-eastern Queensland Credit: Samantha Yabsley,

Australia’s oldest prehistoric tree frog hops 22 million years back in...

An image from the reconstruction of the dinosaur's movements. Image: Dr A Romilio

Digital reconstruction reveals 80 steps of prehistoric life

Evan Saitta, the paper’s lead author, with an emperor penguin in the Field Museum’s bird collections. Photographer(s): Kate Golembiewski (c) Field Museum

When birds lose the ability to fly, their bodies change faster...

Detailed highlights of the rock sample at Biloela in Queensland.

Dozens of 3-toed dinosaurs leave their mark in Queensland

At the 12th day of incubation, feather buds exhibit longitudinal domains of cell density that correspond to the barbs of the future down feather. © Rory Cooper & Michel Milinkovitch (CC BY)

From dinosaurs to birds: the origins of feather formation

Dryolestes, a Late Jurassic relative of the Cretaceous therians. Credit: Artist James Brown, courtesy of Pamela Gill

Mammals were adapting from life in the trees to living on...

The juvenile vertebra of the pterosaur is seen in comparison to an adult-sized one. The bite occurred some 76 million years ago Credit: University of Reading

Rare pterosaur fossil reveals crocodilian bite 76m years ago

Reconstruction of the appearance in life of a gorgonopsian in a floodplain of the Permian of Mallorca. Credit: Henry Sutherland Sharpe

World’s oldest mammalian ancestor discovered in Mallorca

An strange, extinct plant once thought to be related to modern ginseng is now considered the lone representative of an unknown family. Credit: Florida Museum of Natural History / Jeff Gage

Mysterious plant fossil belongs to a family that no longer exists

A close-up of two tiny, whitefly puparia.

Insect fossil find ‘extremely rare’

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