"In the world of paleontology, anything this unusual is important and we feel privileged to be able to interpret them," the ...

A study published in Science Advances and led by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, uncovers how flexibility made ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. 1. Introduction: Then, NOW and beyond -- 2. The origin and early history of NOW as it happened -- 3. The NOW databas of fossil mammals -- 4.

Paleontologists may have discovered when plant-eating dinosaurs evolved their long necks after a new species of ...

Ancient fossils unearthed in Africa show rock hyraxes dragged their hindquarters for locomotion. This behaviour has been ...

A new study shows farming and livestock reshaped global mammal communities, collapsing natural boundaries after the last Ice ...

If you’ve always thought echidnas and platypuses were distant cousins who went their separate ways on land and water, think again. A single fossilized arm bone, found in a remote corner of ...

During the course of evolution, the mammalian cranio-mandibular secondary joint—formed by the dentary condyle and the squamosal glenoid fossa, which replaced the reptilian articular–quadrate ...

Paleontologists say a newly discovered species from Argentina's high-altitude Andes provides an evolutionary hint to how ...

Paleontologists may have discovered when plant-eating dinosaurs evolved their long necks after a new species of ...