Scientists Discover a 99-Million-Year-Old Insect With a Bizarre Feature Never Seen in Living Species
The newly described species: Cretoduros noonoo. Credit: Dolev Fabrikant Like a bendy straw, an ancient insect’s folded mouthparts…
The Fossil Record May Be Missing 200 Million Years of Animal History
Ediacaran sea floor, Namibia, Southwest Africa – 543 million years ago. Credit: Museum of Natural History, University of…
New Gobi Desert Fossil Rewrites a Chapter of Mammal Evolution
Tamirkhan balcarceli (skull and partial hindlimb) – credit, Nicole Wong / © AMNH A remarkably well-preserved fossil from…
One of Earth’s Oldest Animal Fossils Found in a Norwegian Sheep Field
Sheep in a field in Finnmark, Norway. Credit: Yorick Veenma One of the oldest known animal fossils preserved…
A 9-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Challenged What Scientists Thought They Knew About the Atacama Desert
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a group of Cardiatherium, a genus of extinct, direct relatives of modern capybaras, pictured in…
Fossilized Vomit Reveals a Surprising Secret About Plesiosaur Behavior
Artist’s impression of plesiosaurs feeding on the sea floor. Credit: Lente ArtemieffUnusual fossils from an ancient North Sea…
A Strange Tusked Mammal Relative May Redraw the Timeline of the First Dinosaurs
Artistic reconstruction of Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto For more than 60 years, the broken skull and skeleton…
90-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Small Dinosaur Living Along Japan’s Coast
Iguanodontians were a diverse group of plant-eating dinosaurs that thrived from the Late Jurassic through the Late Cretaceous.…
Evidence of Ancient Sharks Found Buried in the Egyptian Desert
Millions of years ago, marine life flourished in waters that spread across what is now Egypt’s Western Desert.…
236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Stunning Secret About the Origins of Mammal Birth
Skull of the Chiniquodon theotonicus individual that was used for this study. Credit: Leandro Gaetano An unusual growth…
Construction Crew Uncovers Giant 20-Meter Dinosaur in Brazil
Artistic reconstruction of the new dinosaur from Maranhão state. It was 20 meters long and had a European…
‘Earliest evidence’ of elephant butchery at Olduvai Gorge shared in new study
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Elephants are widely adored by many people today — but…