Poor baby snake!
Scientists find ‘nude’ creature that lived half a billion years ago
An unusual creature form a long, long time ago.
Scientists find the oldest footprints ever — from a period we didn’t even know things have legs
Talk about a surprising find!
Largest pterosaur jaw ever found, recognized three decades after discovery in Transylvania
What’s with the long face?
How the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs spared ground-dwelling birds
Most birds could fly by that time — but it was the ones that couldn’t that survived.
Early mammal fossil shows how the Pangaea supercontinent split up
Talk about a groundbreaking discovery.
Utah tourists are destroying ancient dinosaur tracks — and throwing them into the water
Ignorance at its finest.
Unique fossils show how early bird beaks developed
It’s a mix of surprisingly old and surprisingly modern.
Fossilized footprints show human hunters stalked giant sloths more than 11,000 years ago
An amazing and dangerous encounter between humans and an ice age species was trapped in fossilized mud.
Researchers investigate intriguing ‘baby’ tyrannosaur fossil
It’s an extremely well-preserved fossil, but for now, it raises more questions than it answers.
Mesozoic baby bird fossil sheds new light on evolution
It’s impressive that we can learn so much about something so fragile, from so long ago.
Amazing fossil shows that Earth’s earliest birds evolved just like Darwin’s finches
These proto-birds may have evolved just like their modern relatives.
New fossil shows when worms developed heads
Too often we take our heads for granted.
A lot of eggs in one basket: Paleontologists discover pterosaur egg bonanza
They say don’t put your eggs in one basket, but what about putting your eggs in the same bedrock?
This rat-like creature is the earliest ancestor of mankind
In a way, we’re all the descendants of these rats.
Researchers discover astonishingly intact, 48-million-year-old bird fats in fossilized gland
An incredible find.
Scott Pruitt says subsidies give renewables an unfair edge, and here’s why he’s a monumental hypocrite
Capital H.
Ancient elephant species was twice as heavy as today’s modern cousins
A huge elephant used to roam the Middle East up to 300,000 years ago.
Stunning triceratops fossil discovered by chance on construction site
It’s an exciting and intriguing find.
Tiny, fossilized ape skull brings us closer to the common human-ape ancestor, fuels debate over humanity’s place of birth
Not bad for such a small thing.