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The first evidence of human life in the Olorgesailie Basin comes from about 1.2 million years ago. For hundreds of the thousands of years, people living there made and used large stone-cutting tools called handaxes (left).

Scientists discover evidence of early human innovation, pushing back evolutionary timeline

Skeleton of the dicynodont Placerias

60-year-old paleontological mystery of a ‘phantom’ dicynodont

The Munich specimen of the transitional bird Archaeopteryx. It preserves a partial skull (top left), shoulder girdle and both wings slightly raised up (most left to center left), the ribcage (center), and the pelvic girdle and both legs in a 'cycling' posture (right); all connected by the vertebral column from the neck (top left, under the skull) to the tip of the tail (most right). Imprints of its wing feathers are visible radiating from below the shoulder and vague imprints of the tail plumage can be recognized extending from the tip of the tail.

The early bird got to fly: Archaeopteryx was an active flyer

Some of the Moroccan pterosaur fossils from the study.

Pterosaurs went out with a bang, not a whimper

The well-preserved tooth is an estimated 2-2.5 million years old and belonged to a Megalodon, regarded as one of the largest and most powerful fish to have ever lived

Ancient giant shark tooth goes missing in Australia

Reconstruction of the late Ediacaran (ca. 550 million years ago) sea floor with burrows of a worm-like animal.This was the first discovery of such deeply penetrating burrows.

Digging up the Precambrian: Fossil burrows show early origins of animal...

illustration of Captorhinus showing breakable tail vertebrae.

Ancient reptile Captorhinus could detach its tail to escape predator’s grasp

Photosynthesis originated a billion years earlier than we thought, study shows

"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

This is a roundnose grenadier at 1,300m off the Hebrides, Scotland.

Deep-sea fish choose habitat according to genotype, new research says

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

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