During the course of evolution, the mammalian cranio-mandibular secondary joint—formed by the dentary condyle and the ...

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Dinosaur fossils reveal preserved blood molecules, reshaping how scientists understand fossil chemistry and deep-time ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate ...

A recent study found that many of the fossils from Germany's Posidonia shale do not get their gleam from pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold, which was long thought to be the source of the shine.

On an outcrop of exposed volcanic and sedimentary rock on the eastern shores of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, researchers have unearthed what may be the earliest fossilized life forms ever discovered ...

A "teenaged" pachycephalosaur from Mongolia's Gobi Desert may provide answers to lingering questions around the dinosaur ...

A 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite landed in Algeria in 1990, the remnant of a larger asteroid born during the dawn of our solar system. New analysis of the meteorite, called Acfer 049, has revealed ice ...

A refined type of spectroscopy could advance a long-standing debate about the presence of dinosaur soft tissue ...

Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don't typically preserve well -- except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot ...