Small, Chicken-Like Dinosaur May Have Had a Jaw Built for Fruit
Fossils from Montana show a small oviraptorosaur with a jaw that slid front to back, a feature shared…
Jurassic Crocodile Relative from Morocco Had Needle-Thin Teeth
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of teleosaurid thalattosuchian based on two specimens found in eastern…
Neanderthal Gene Still Shapes Muscle and Jaws in Some Living Humans
Neanderthals vanished roughly 42,000 years ago, but a piece of their biology appears to be quietly at work…
Tiny Triassic Reptile Sheds Light on Early Lizard Evolution
Today, lepidosaurs — the reptile group that includes lizards, snakes and New Zealand’s tuatara — are among the…
83-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Lizard Fossil Unearthed in France
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of pan-shinisaur lizard from a partial upper jaw discovered in…
Omnivorous, Rodent-Like Mammal Lived in Dinosaurs’ Shadow on Pacific Coast
Paleontologists have descibed a new species of the multituberculate mammal genus Cimolodon based on a fossil found in…
Early Platypuses Had Strong Teeth and Powerful Jaws, Fossils Show
New fossils from the Namba Formation of South Australia reveal that 25 million years ago, Obdurodon insignis —…
New Fossil from Brazil Reveals Unexpected Diversity among Pre-Dinosaur Herbivores
Paleontologists in Brazil have identified a new genus and species of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur — an extinct lineage of…
Museum Fossil Reveals Triassic Crocodile Cousin with Powerful Jaws
CT scans of a decades-old specimen from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History show a new species…
Early Triassic Cyclidan Crustacean Had Powerful Jaws
Paleontologists have described a new species of enigmatic cyclidan crustacean on the basis of three well-preserved specimens from…
Early Howler Monkeys Adapted to Eating Leaves 13 Million Years Ago
Fossil jaws of the ancient monkey species Stirtonia victoriae from the La Victoria Formation in Colombia suggest that…
Researchers Using Neanderthal DNA to Learn More About How Human Faces Develop and Evolve
University of Edinburgh scientist Hannah Long and colleagues show how a region of Neanderthal DNA is better at…