A recent study published in Papers in Palaeontology describes the discovery and identification of a new species of pinheirodontid multituberculate based on the preserved hemimandible from the Upper ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Sometimes it’s difficult to avoid feeling a ...

UV light makes it possible to see intricate structures of fossils that are barely visible in normal daylight. This method has often been used on the fossilized seashells from the Earth's current ...

The Earth has many living fossils that boggle the mind. For generations, we have been studying the world of life that populates our one and only home in the cosmos. But how can a living fossil that ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made with the finding of a new species of pinheirodontid multituberculate from the Upper Jurassic period in the Freixial Formation, located in Portugal. The fossil, ...

A new examination of teeth from 11 Neanderthal and early human fossils shows that modern humans are slower than our ancestors to reach full maturity (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

This study is done by Dr. Ruifeng SU (Beijing Institutes of life science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences), and together with Prof. Mee-Mann CHANG (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

New Zealand may be relatively small, but its fossil record reveals a globally important ecological relationship between the number of species, their role in the ecosystem and ocean temperatures. We ...

A fossil discovery in WA's northwest suggests that a family of microbes has persisted essentially unchanged for the past 2.3 billion years—half the age of Earth. Australian and American scientists ...

Mass extinctions are known as times of global upheaval, causing rapid losses in biodiversity that wipe out entire animal groups. Some of the doomed groups linger on before going extinct, and a team of ...