Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

The study of fossils, known as paleontology is about examining old remains of plants, animals, and other life forms found in ...

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

Researchers unearthed the skull of a previously unknown starling-sized bird species named Navaornis hestiae that was so well ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

The researchers determined that these fossils dated to a condensed period of about 125.8 million years ago, spanning less ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has refuted the long-standing hypothesis that ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

The fossils are from two extinct species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis each of them small creatures less than 12 inches long (but about the same size as the ...

according to a new study. Scientists say a string ... Aug. 26, 2024 — Fossils are used to reconstruct evolutionary history, but not all animals and plants become fossils and many fossils are ...

says the study. Dinocephalosaurus orientalis and Tanystropheus sp. didn’t coexist in the eastern Tethys, based on where their ...