A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

“Tanyka is from an ancient lineage that we didn’t know survived to this time, and it’s also just a really strange animal,” Jason Pardo, the study’s lead author, said in a statement. “The jaw has this ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it ...

Spinosaurus, the only known semiaquatic dinosaur predator, joins Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus among ...

Scientists used a particle accelerator to reconstruct the 3.7-million-year-old face of Little Foot, one of the most complete ...

Ancient fossils show how much warming tropical oceans can handle before plankton collapse, offering clues about future ...