New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

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A recent study published in Papers in Palaeontology describes the discovery and identification of a new species of pinheirodontid multituberculate based on the preserved hemimandible from the Upper ...

UV light makes it possible to see intricate structures of fossils that are barely visible in normal daylight. This method has often been used on the fossilized seashells from the Earth's current ...

The latest research on a Neanderthal infant from Amud Cave in Israel is giving a clearer picture of how different early development may have been in our extinct relatives. The remains, dated to around ...

A new examination of teeth from 11 Neanderthal and early human fossils shows that modern humans are slower than our ancestors to reach full maturity (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

Fossils and DNA reveal how climate change is shrinking the habitat of an Australian lizard and threatening its future ...

This study is done by Dr. Ruifeng SU (Beijing Institutes of life science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences), and together with Prof. Mee-Mann CHANG (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

New Zealand may be relatively small, but its fossil record reveals a globally important ecological relationship between the number of species, their role in the ecosystem and ocean temperatures. We ...

A possible sponge fossil dating back 890 million years could be the oldest animal ever discovered. Not all researchers are convinced that the markings left in the rock were made by an animal but, if ...