Fossils show that howler monkey ancestors, Stirtonia victoriae, were eating leaves 13 million years ago, altering body size ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws ...

Paleorex is back on Bored Panda with his detailed, science-based creatures, showing us how animals like big cats, birds, and ...

Even with only jaws, Tanyka amnicola adds a new character to an ancient ecosystem that scientists are still trying to sketch ...

Paleontologists uncovered thefossilized jawbone of a creature that once lived around 275 million years ago, Tanyka amnicola, a strange ancestor of modern salamanders. Initially, scientists thought the ...

Actors from Jobsite Theater's production of "The Shark is Broken" sit in the maw of a shark "The Shark is Broken," at Jobsite ...

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

Paleontologists surveying a dry riverbed in northeastern Brazil repeatedly encountered the same type of fossil: a lower jaw about six inches long, curved and thick, and twisted in an unexpected way. A ...

"It's a really strange animal, and the weird twist in the jaw drove us crazy trying to figure it out." ...

With its uniquely twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, the new species was a relic of an earlier and more experimental time in the evolution of life on Earth. Fossils discovered in Brazil show that ...

Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.