The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...
The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with.
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A 500-million-year-old fossil found in Utah turns out to be the oldest known tunicate — the creature that links invertebrates to every animal with a spine
In 2019, two Harvard researchers visiting the Natural History Museum of Utah pulled open a drawer of confiscated Cambrian ...
Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.
A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...
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A 550-million-year-old sponge fossil may have lacked a skeleton entirely — rewriting how the first animals evolved
When paleontologists picture the earliest animals, they tend to imagine something with at least a rudimentary skeleton: a ...
Scientists confirm CT scanning doesn't interfere with natural decomposition processes, opening new windows into understanding how fossils form. Scientists have found that X-Ray scanning reveals ...
Scientists still aren’t sure what exactly prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils tell us about life before the Cambrian Explosion, but at least they now understand why we have a remarkable fossil record ...
WINONA, Minn. — It’s hard to overstate how rare and exciting a dinosaur mummy is. And yes, the fossil called “Medusa” could be a dinosaur mummy — the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years ...
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