Fossils

Tiny hairs likely offered an evolutionary advantage to Mesozoic land snails.

A finding that fills a gap in the evolutionary history of apes.

The specimen is the first of its kind to be found.

DNA from the ancient population in Southern China suggests Native Americans’ East Asian roots.

With the thickest tooth and largest trunk vertebra

An amber fossil of a Cretaceous beetle has shed some light on the diet of one of the earliest pollinators of flowering plants.

Neanderthals disappeared from North West Europe earlier than thought.

Prehistoric ‘Sea Dragon’

The species was capable of swallowing fruit as big as a tennis ball.

Fossil humans are rare, representing only a very small percentage of all of the fossil mammals discovered at any given paleontological site. In short,...