Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest ...

Scientists who identify, analyze, and classify fossils are called paleontologists ... through 10 extinct mammals that will ...

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New fossil discoveries reveal three Thylacine species from 23 million years ago, highlighting rapid evolutionary diversification and expanding knowledge of ancient ecosystems. The last of the ...

A Tasmanian tiger, declared extinct in 1936, is displayed at the Australian Museum in Sydney (AFP via Getty) Ancient fossil specimens generally only retain short DNA sequences and little to no RNA ...

Opalised ornithpod teeth fossils found near Lightning Ridge.(Supplied: Bob Smith) "Two natural phenomena that are stupidly unlikely — the formation of a fossil and the formation of opal ...

The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 bones in all representing a whopping 40 percent of the skeleton ...

July 24, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that the serrated edges of Komodo dragons' teeth are tipped with ... have been 70% heavier than what the fossil evidence ... Aug. 26, 2024 — An ...

The Calvert Marine Museum this month unveiled a new exhibit featuring a never-before-seen set of teeth from an extinct megatooth shark known as megalodon.

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study published in Science of fossil pollen ...

The country's longest continuous bike trail – the Alps to Ocean – takes travellers on a 315km journey into the ...

Unlike other birds, which get pigments from their diets, parrots produce their own—but scientists never fully understood the underlying mechanisms, until now Sarah Kuta The critter found in New ...