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Holotype fossil of Caihong juji, including line drawing of fossil skeleton.

‘Rainbow’ dinosaur had iridescent feathers like a hummingbird

Dinosaur tracks.

Digitally preserving important Arkansas dinosaur tracks

Butterfly

Scientists have accidentally found the oldest ever butterfly or moth fossils

Caihong juji is a newly described, bird-like dinosaur with an iridescent, rainbow crest.

Tiny dinosaur may have dazzled mates with rainbow ruff and a...

Diluvicursor pickeringi holotype

A new species of turkey-sized dinosaur is discovered from Australia

An artist's impression of a New Zealand burrowing bat, Mystacina robusta, that went extinct last century.

Giant extinct burrowing bat discovered in New Zealand

These are burrows on the margins of a sandstone dyke.

New depth limit for deep-sea marine burrows

This is part of a neck vertebra of the dwarf sauropod Europasaurus with deep cavities (asterisk) that presumably housed air sacs.

Researchers show high-performance breathing in bones

pillow basalts from undersea volcanic eruptions,

Which came first: Complex life or high atmospheric oxygen?

Snapping Shrimp

An adaptation 150 million years in the making

Fossil specimen of Habelia optata from the Royal Ontario Museum.

A 508 million year old sea predator with a ‘jackknife’ head

The Angmaat Formation above Tremblay Sound on the Baffin Island coast

Origins of photosynthesis in plants dated to 1.25 billion years ago

Skull, Urkudelphis chawpipacha MO-1 (holotype) in right lateral view.

New ancient dolphin species Urkudelphis chawpipacha discovered in Ecuador

A hidden diversity of half-billion-year-old microscopic animal fossils

An example of one of the microfossils discovered in a sample of rock recovered from the Apex Chert, a rock formation in western Australia that is among the oldest and best-preserved rock deposits in the world.

Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5...

This is a 3.465 billion year-old fossil microorganism from Western Australia.

Ancient fossil microorganisms indicate that life in the universe is common

Digital reconstruction of the Canadian Arctic fossil bear

Primitive fossil bear with a sweet tooth identified from Canada’s High...

ancient giant penguin Kumimanu biceae

Ancient penguin was as big as a (human) Pittsburgh Penguin

skeleton of Rhaeticosaurus

The oldest plesiosaur was a strong swimmer

Pseudooides

Fossil orphans reunited with their parents after half a billion years

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