A small fossil jaw rests in Argentina’s national natural science museum in Buenos Aires. The fossil, only six inches long, ...

A groundbreaking dinosaur discovery with just two claws is challenging everything we thought we knew about evolution. This unexpected creature is forcing paleontologists to rethink the development of ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

In the long shadow of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, life appears to have bounced back with surprising speed. A new analysis of sedimentation rates suggests that the first wave of marine ...

Ants trapped in amber reveal possible partnerships and parasites, offering a rare glimpse into ecosystems from nearly 100 ...

The authors of the study examining the fossil of Haolong dongi at the Anhui Geological Museum in Hefei, China. © Thierry Hubin © Thierry Hubin Production of this ...

Ants and other species who lived alongside dinosaurs but preserved in fossilized tree resin reveal a great deal about their ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

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

During photosynthesis, trees convert the carbon dioxide to sugars and in doing so produce oxygen as a biproduct, which is vital for life on Earth. “Trees draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and ...

The newer, more complete specimen allowed the team to finally map the globally-distributed group's strange anatomy ...