The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.
A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.
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First fossil of its kind shows a pterosaur died with a belly full of plants preserved in its stomach
In a fossil-rich region of northeastern China, a well-preserved specimen of an ancient flying reptile has brought new clarity ...
A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The ...
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Tiny fossil with a preserved brain found, smaller than a nail
A fossil smaller than a human fingernail has revealed a complete ancient brain, turning a speck of stone into a detailed map ...
Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...
In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...
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Mysteriously Young ‘Mammoth’ Fossils Discovered in Alaska Turned Out to Be Whale Bones
When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...
UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter ...
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