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Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

Palaeontologists found the fossil in January 2020 while searching for feathered dinosaurs in Santa Cruz province in Argentina. “They did not achieve their goal,” says Mariana Chuliver at ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

LANSING — When it comes to fossils, Michigan missed out on Tyrannosaurus rex and its associates, but the Mitten State came out just fine with its famous Petoskey stones and mastodons.

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists’ understanding of this still-mysterious group of prehistoric reptiles Alexa Robles ...

A newly discovered frog fossil represents the oldest tadpole ever found, and it looks remarkably like the tadpoles you’re probably familiar with except for one thing—it was a giant.

Muller found the fossil in 2015, near the town of Paraiso do Sul, in the southern part of Brazil. But it was only recently that he and his colleagues began to study it.

All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...

Scientists from Brazil say a recently discovered fossil may help explain how dinosaurs evolved and came to rule the planet. The bones date back to approximately 237 million years ago, making them ...

The Harvard Museum of Natural History welcomed visitors on Sunday for its third annual National Fossil Day event since the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing children and adults to learn about ...

In 2014, physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio found the fossil in the town of Paraiso do Sul in Brazil's southernmost Rio Grande do Sul state. He donated it to a local university in 2021, kicking ...