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primitive monkey teeth in Kenya

Tooth fossils fill 6-million-year-old gap in primate evolution

Amber piece showing most large inclusions

Coastal organisms trapped in 99-million-year-old amber

The illustration shows the wing of Alcmonavis poeschli as it was found in the limestone slab. Alcmonavis poeschli is the second known specimen of a volant bird from the Jurassic period.

Archaeopteryx gets company

a. Fossil; b. restoration, scale bar equal 10 mm; c. melanosomes of the membranous wing (mw); d. histology of the bony stomach content (bn). st, styliform element; gs, gastroliths Credit: WANG Min

New Jurassic non-avian theropod dinosaur sheds light on origin of flight...

Reconstructed skull and lower jaw of Acherontiscus caledoniae

Research reveals surprisingly powerful bite of tiny early tetrapod

Fossil casts of Australopithecus afarensis (left), Homo habilis (center), and Australopithecus sediba (right)

Statistical study finds it unlikely South African fossil species is ancestral...

North Carolina’s Black River

Oldest known trees in eastern North America documented

tyrannosauroid Suskityrannus hazelae

New 3-foot-tall relative of Tyrannosaurus rex

Fossilized giant arthropod Phytophilaspis from the Cambrian Period.

Oxygen linked with the boom and bust of early animal evolution

Dinosaur

The fossilization process of dinosaur remains

The newly described millipede (Burmanopetalum inexpectatum) seen in amber.

99-million-year-old millipede discovered in Burmese amber

Caudipteryx robot for testing passive flapping flight.

Running may have made dinosaurs’ wings flap before they evolved to...

The skulls of three hadrosaur dinosaurs, Lambeosaurus lambei (top left), Gryposaurus notabilis (top right), Parasaurolophus walkeri (lower).

Chewing versus sex in duck-billed dinosaurs

Well-preserved fossils -- like this Yanoconodon allini (Specimen No.: NJU P06001; Formation: Yixian; Age: 122.2-124.6 million years ago; Provenance: China)

Flowering plants, new teeth and no dinosaurs: New study sheds light...

The Xiahe mandible, only represented by its right half, was found in 1980 in Baishiya Karst Cave.

First hominins on the Tibetan Plateau were Denisovans

Australian blue tongue lizard ancestor

Australian blue tongue lizard ancestor was round-in-the-tooth

Callichimaera perplexa

Meet Callichimaera perplexa, the platypus of crabs

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

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