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

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature ...

Learn how newly discovered Purgatorius fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin are filling gaps in the Paleocene fossil record and ...

“This study demonstrates that eggshell biocalcite from non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and other egg-laying vertebrates has the ...

The tiny remnant belongs to Purgatorius, one of the earliest known relatives of all primates, including humans, which first ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

Beneath what is now a Lowe’s parking lot just off Route 55 in Mantua Township, New Jersey, lies a remarkable fossil site, soon to be the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum. The site sits atop a layer of ...

Around 120 to 130 million years ago, northeast China was home to a lush landscape filled with temperate forests, lakes, and diverse wildlife. Today, this ancient ecosystem, preserved in the Yixian ...

Shark teeth are often considered the most common vertebrate fossils in the world, and for good reason. Each individual shark has rows upon rows of chompers that fall out and get replaced in conveyor ...

Isotope evidence from fossil otoliths shows Caribbean reef food chains have shrunk by up to 70%, signaling a major loss of ...