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brain inside the cranium

Researchers find the mountain beaver’s ancestor had a larger relative brain...

Ocean

World’s first animals likely caused global warming

These are Ediacaran fossils at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.

Why life on Earth first got big

Ediacaran carbonate rocks in Three Gorges area, Hubei Province

What caused the mass extinction of Earth’s first animals?

Original picture (left) and virtual rendering of the Jacovec cranium (middle) with two sections revealing the inner structure (right).

Cranium of a four-million-year-old hominin shows similarities to that of modern...

Lestodon

Dramatic change in way ancient diets are calculated

Primitivus manduriensis

Scientists discover new species of ancient marine lizard

T. Rex

T. Rex couldn’t stick out its tongue

Ediacaran-era fossils: Obamus coronatus (left) and Attenborites janeae.

Two new creatures discovered from dawn of animal life

Chancelloriid Fossil

Strange sponge-like fossil creature from half a billion years ago

Lemurs, lorises and galagoes have nails on most digits and grooming claws on their second toes

Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails

Shartegosuchus

In the gaping mouth of ancient crocodiles

The best-preserved fossil of the group includes the skull, forelimbs, part of a backbone and a partial hind limb of a small, juvenile frog now known as Electrorana limoae.

Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests

This silk-wrapped tick subsequently was entombed in amber that may have dripped from a nearby tree.

For 100 million years, amber freezes a tableau of tick’s worst...

Postdoctoral Fellow Theodore Them (left, holding an extinct fossil sample) and Assistant Professor Jeremy Owens (right, holding a rock core sample).

Volcanic activity, declining ocean oxygen triggered mass extinction of ancient organisms

Brasilestes stardusti

Oldest mammal in Brazil lived in the age of dinosaurs

Gorynychus masyutinae

‘Monstrous’ new Russian saber-tooth fossils clarify early evolution of mammal lineage

Amber

Tiny paragliding beetle that lived with dinosaurs discovered in amber, named...

giant azhdarchid pterosaur Hatzegopteryx

Jurassic diet: Why our knowledge of what ancient pterosaurs ate might...

Ediacaran Dengying Formation

Researchers report the earliest fossil footprints

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