Tag: paleontology

New 518-million-year-old fossils named Yujingia glutenotunica suggest that the common ancestor of starfish and acorn worms used tentacles to feed, ...

Synchrotron scans of Scotland's famed 345-million-year-old Westlothiana fossil have revealed internal gills and fish-like teeth, dethroning the long-celebrated specimen as ...

Sulfur isotope signatures in pyritized Ediacaran fossils indicate that chemosymbiosis between animals and bacteria evolved more than 540 million years ...

Two student scientists at the Field Museum have described Jeanerpeton mazonensis, a new 309-million-year-old proto-amphibian from the Mazon Creek fossil ...

A new study shows that the upper and lower carnassial teeth of living carnivores produce statistically equivalent dental microwear signatures, ...

A comprehensive new review of Archaeopteryx portrays the oldest known bird as a ground-foraging, omnivorous generalist capable of limited powered ...

A newly named Jurassic belemnite from Wyoming is the thickest ever recorded and belonged to a family thought to have ...

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and a coalition of conservation, preservation, and Tribal organizations have sued the Trump administration over ...

A total-evidence phylogeny of feliform carnivores reveals four adaptive zones and shows that dental morphology reliably predicts diet only in ...

Researchers from Australia and Canada have made groundbreaking strides in understanding the avian brain through innovative methods that utilize digital ...