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…
Researchers Reconstruct Face of Oldest Known Homo sapiens
Scientists have created a digital facial approximation of the Jebel Irhoud hominin, whose remains are dated to about…
Research challenges previously held ideas about Tasmanian tiger
A new Australian study has shed light on how the thylacine subdued its prey and what kinds of…
Paleontologists Identify New Species of Glyptodont
An incomplete fossilized skull that has sat in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark since…
224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the…
Did Early Snakes Burrow, Swim or Crawl? 80‑Million‑Year‑Old Fossil Suggests: All Three
Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest…
Early Saber-Toothed Cat Gets New Face after Decades of Mystery
A nearly complete skull unearthed decades ago in Arizona has given paleontologists their clearest look yet at Adelphailurus…
Research challenges calcium and vitamin D use for bone health
Researchers in Canada evaluated 69 trials involving 153,902 participants, most of whom were community-dwelling and not at high…
Nathan Cleary provides update on uncle Jason Death after fall at his Sydney home
Speaking to media in the build-up to Wednesday’s State of Origin opener in Sydney, Nathan Cleary said Death’s…
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…
Big-Nosed Herbivorous Dinosaur May Have Been Picky Eater
New research shows that the large-bodied ornithopod dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus langdoni from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia was no ordinary…
Scientist Finds Built-In Drum in Head of Weird-Looking Fish
A fish species called the armored rockhead poacher (Bothragonus swanii) carries a secret that has confounded marine biologists…