Now, two well-preserved fossils of the creature unearthed in France have finally revealed what Arthropleura’s head looked like, providing insights into how the giant arthropod lived. Today ...

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Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

Nov. 4, 2024 — Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested.

Previous excavations had found human fossils deposited in the cave dating between 86,000 and 30,000 years ago, suggesting an earlier dispersal of Homo sapiens into Southeast Asia than previously ...

All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...

Oct. 2, 2024 — By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean monkey, a team of researchers says it has uncovered new evidence documenting the anatomy and ...

Arthropleura grew up to 10-1/2 feet (3.2 meters) long Head anatomy indicates Arthropleura ate plants French fossils date to 305 million years ago Oct 10 (Reuters) - During the Carboniferous Period ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

Fossils tell us the world over about life on Earth before humans existed - they can help us understand what the climate was like, what creatures lived on the planet, and what caused significant ...

A fossil, believed to be one of the oldest ever, could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs. Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of the ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years.

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