An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...

When scientists find a fossil, they take time to officially describe it ... Kyle Glatz is a writer at A-Z-Animals where his primary focus is on geography and mammals. Kyle has been writing for ...

"This fossil skeleton provides new evidence concerning how placental mammals diversified ecologically following the extinction of the dinosaurs," said Chester. Telephone: *2421 * Extension 4 ...

New research uncovers the arboreal lifestyle and diet of Mixodectes pungens.

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