The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of predation in North America ...
Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...
Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...
Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...
In a study published in January, researchers confirmed the preservation of original organic molecules in Mesozoic dinosaur ...
Scientists have identified a previously unknown human relative from a 1.4-million-year-old fossilized jawbone, reshaping our ...
With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...
Learn more about Vegavis iaai, an ancient ancestor of modern-day ducks, and one of the earliest modern birds ever discovered.
New research suggests that our ancestors, such as Australopithecus, consumed little to no meat, relying instead on a ...