Scientists may have found a key piece of the puzzle in uncovering Earth’s ancient past. A new study led by the University of Southampton suggests a dramatic decline in ocean calcium could explain why ...

A 55-million-year-old fossil of a predator discovered in New Zealand is offering new insights into ancient marine ecosystems ...

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The biological mystery of how many mammals transitioned from being nocturnal to active in the daytime following the extinction of the dinosaurs has been cracked by researchers in Cambridge. The study, ...

D analysis of bite marks on a tyrannosaur foot bone shows that smaller tyrannosaurs scavenged carcasses, likely consuming the final remains after most flesh was gone. Tyrannosaurs are usually imagined ...

Fossil bone analysis shows that mysterious tiny Liaoningosaurus specimens are actually hatchling ankylosaurs, offering rare evidence of early armored dinosaur development. A long-standing puzzle ...

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A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Scientists have uncovered minuscule fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin, hinting at the southward spread of early primates after the dinosaur extinction. These tiny fossils challenge long-held ...

The tiny remnant belongs to Purgatorius, one of the earliest known relatives of all primates, including humans, which first ...