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Ediacara biota

Earth’s oldest animals formed complex ecological communities

Kalligrammatids in Burmese amber

Fossils reveal diverse Mesozoic pollinating lacewings

Morganucodon

Tiny fossils reveal how shrinking was essential for successful evolution

Pahvantia hastasta

Half billion year old fossils offer new clues to how life...

tarsometatarsus

“World’s Largest Bird” Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar...

fossil mollusks

The walking dead: Fossils on the move can distort patterns of...

Thismia kobensis

New plant species discovered in museum is probably extinct

Amber

Early amber trade: Sicilian amber in Western Europe predates arrival of...

Kirk's father and Austin-based artist Randy Kirk produced his own rendering of what the species might have looked like.

Three previously unknown ancient primates identified

Kayentatherium wellesi

Mammal forerunner that reproduced like a reptile sheds light on brain...

A view of the Issole River in southeastern France,

Faster than we thought—sulfurization of organic material

sample of mantle xenolith, rock sections of the lithosphere that get captured by the passing magma and erupted to the surface during the volcanic explosion.

Geologists uncover new clues about largest mass extinction ever

Bannykus resoration

How did alvarezsaurian dinosaurs evolve monodactyl hand?

Xiyunykus

Rare intermediate fossils give researchers insight into evolution of bird-like dinosaur

From left to right: Haplocheirus, Xiyunykus, Bannykus, and Shuvuuia. Note the lengthening of the jaws, reduction of the teeth, and changes in the hand and arm.

Two new Chinese dinosaurs discovered

Eorhynchochelys

228 million year old fossil sheds light on how turtles evolved

lacewing larvae

Amber unveils evolution of ancient antlions

Fossilized fragments of primate jaws and teeth from Africa are changing what researchers thought they knew about when lemurs made it to Madagascar.

Enigmatic African fossils rewrite story of when lemurs got to Madagascar

mid-Cretaceous beetle Cretoparacucujus cycadophilus

99-million-year-old beetle trapped in amber served as pollinator to evergreen cycads

shark tooth

Rare teeth from ancient mega-shark found on Australia beach

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