Cutting-edge analysis of fossil ape teeth reveals ancient seasonal change in Africa, long before human ancestors appeared. The method will be crucial for the future study of early hominins.
An artist’s vision of Qikiqtania enjoying its fully aquatic, free-swimming lifestyle.
Alex Boersma
A biologist explains how researchers nail down the age of ancient fossils thanks to a physical process called radioactive decay.
Roaming the ancient seas eons ago, the megalodon shark eviscerated its prey with jaws that were 10 feet wide.
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Australia has them, so why doesn’t New Zealand have national or regional fossil emblems? A campaign to change that kicks off today.
A skeleton of an Allosaurus on display at Drouot auction house in Paris, in October 2020. It sold for three million euros, double the asking price.
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Samuel Zamora, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME - CSIC)
The discovery of a unique 510 million-year-old fossil in a Pennsylvania churchyard offers new clues into how early life evolved on Earth.
David Attenborough presents the BBC’s groundbreaking documentary, Dinosaurs: The Final Day.
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Thanks to our new technique using fossilised tracks, we have been able to learn more about the locomotion of the largest creatures ever to have roamed this planet.
Kizu, one of the Koshima macaques
Andrew J. J. MacIntosh
Macaque tooth wear was identical to our ancestors, throwing into question the long held belief that tool use caused the markings on hominin tooth fossils.
We studied 8,000 primate teeth and finally confirmed that humans are not the only living primate to suffer from cavities. But there are interesting differences.
Homo bodoensis was named after a skull discovered almost 50 years ago in Ethiopia.
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If scientific research is to take decolonization seriously, names for species should reflect this approach and consider the political, social and emotional implications.
The twin buttes that give Bears Ears National Monument in Utah its name are sacred places to many Indigenous Tribes and Pueblos.
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The Biden administration is restoring full protection to three national monuments that President Trump sought to cut down drastically.
Tyrannosaurus rex was a relentless predator who lived during the Cretaceous Period more than 65 million years ago.
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New analysis of Anglo-Saxon skulls suggests that being an Anglo-Saxon was a matter of language and culture, and not genetics.
With the evidence uncovered by paleontologists, an artist sketched El Bosque Petrificado Piedra Chamana as it might have looked long before humans.
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By looking at the eye bones and ear canals of extinct dinosaurs, researchers show that a small ancient predator likely hunted at night and had senses as good as a modern barn owl.
Tyrannosaurus rex spanned all of ancient North America, and about 20,000 lived at once.
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