For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Scientists have uncovered minuscule fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin, hinting at the southward spread of early primates after the dinosaur extinction. These tiny fossils challenge long-held ...

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

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

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

Strange dinosaur species found with hundreds of stones in its throat named after funk band - Species named after techno-funk duo Chromeo could be key to understanding how a small group of dinosaurs su ...