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An exceptional fossil skull of Chilecebus carrascoensis, a 20-million-year-old primate from the Andes mountains of Chile. Credit: © AMNH/N. Wong and M. Ellison

20-million-year-old skull suggests complex brain evolution in monkeys, apes

A Desmoceras fossil. A cephalopod that thrived in the early Cretaceous, 146 to 100 million years ago. Note the fossilized biomineral nacre or mother of pearl. Credit: Pupa Gilbert

Making biominerals: Nature’s recipe is old, evolved more than once

Fig. 1. 10 million-year-old fossil frog from Libros, Spain and X-ray map showing elevated levels of copper and zinc in the internal organs. Fossil photograph copyright the Natural History Museum, London. X-ray fluorescence map. Credit: Valentina Rossi

Scientists discover new way to reconstruct what extinct animals looked like

Head posture if the lateral (horizontal) semi-circular canal is parallel to the ground, in hatching (A), juvenile (B) and adult (C) Psittacosaurus lutjiatunensis. Images not to scale. Credit: Claire Bullar and IVPP.

Dinosaur brains from baby to adult

Microscopic eggs of fish tapeworm (left), giant kidney worm (centre), and Echinostoma worm (right) from the Must Farm excavation. Black scale bar represents 20 micrometres. Credit: Marissa Ledger

Ancient feces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk...

Canterbury Museum researcher Vanesa De Pietri (L) said the discovery reinforces the theory that penguins attained great size early in their evolution

Giant penguin fossil found in New Zealand

Reconstructions of lycopsid trees (Guangdedendron micrum). Left: juvenile plant. Right: adult plant. Credit: Zhenzhen Deng

Researchers discover oldest fossil forest in Asia

The 23-million-year-old bones of the newly-discovered giant, Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, had been left for nearly 40 years in a drawer

Hidden mysteries lie in wait inside Kenya’s fossil treasury

A flightless dinosaur called Similicaudipteryx uses its feathers in a mating display. U of A researchers looked at how such displays may have helped dinosaurs evolve feathers that eventually allowed them to fly. Credit: Sydney Mohr

Sex appeal helped dinosaurs take flight

Ngwevu intloko skull. Credit: Kimberley Chapelle

New species of early dinosaur described from South Africa

This fossilized tree leaf, is the first of their kind to have been found in the area. Alexandre Demers-Potvin, used the samples he collected to establish that Eastern Canada would have had a warm temperate and fully humid climate during the middle of Cretaceous period. Credit: Alexandre Demers-Potvin

Newly discovered Labrador fossils give clues about ancient climate

Reconstruction by Lars Fields. Credit: Lars Fields Royal Ontario Museum

A voracious Cambrian predator, Cambroraster, is a new species from the...

Scientists say the femur might have belonged to a gigantic sauropod. Credit: AFP / GEORGES GOBET

Colossal dinosaur bone find in France thrills scientists

These fossil-rich sediments along the Alto Madre de Dios River in southern Peru have yielded hundreds of fossil teeth and bones, clues to what life in the Amazon was like 18 million years ago.

World’s smallest fossil monkey found in Amazon jungle

The fossil of Microdocodon gracilis is preserved in two rock slabs, found in a site near the Wuhua village in the Daohugou area of Inner Mongolia, China. Credit: Zhe-Xi Luo

Jurassic fossil shows how early mammals could swallow like their modern...

Aquilarhinus palimentus, or ‘shovel-chinned eagle nose’. Illustration by ICRA Art

Strange new species of duck-billed dinosaur identified

An artist’s rendering of Auroraceratops shows its bipedal posture as well as the beak and frill that characterize it as a member of the horned dinosaurs. Paleontologists from Penn led a team in characterizing this species, discovered in China

Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two...

When carbon emissions pass a critical threshold, it can trigger a spike-like reflex in the carbon cycle, in the form of severe ocean acidification that lasts for 10,000 years, according to a new MIT study.

Breaching a ‘carbon threshold’ could lead to mass extinction

This 2.1-billion-year-old sediment from a clay formation in Gabon has high concentrations of potassium, which could only have been caused by ancient microbes, according to new research.

Scientists develop new method for studying early life in ancient rocks

Calcified plankton dating from 95 million years ago (images captured in the Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre)

Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago

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