1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (428+ words) Learn how fossil evidence shows that ceratopsians lived across Europe during the Late Cretaceous, challenging long-held assumptions about where horned dinosaurs evolved. Horned dinosaurs lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous, despite being thought largely absent from the continent's fossil…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (600+ words) Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on the planet. Past mass extinctions, as devastating as they are, have shaped the vast biodiversity of today's Earth…...

3+ day, 23+ min ago   (635+ words) Learn how precisely dated fossils from Morocco reveal a population with a mix of archaic and emerging traits, helping clarify when African and Eurasian human lineages began to diverge. Along Morocco's Atlantic coast, hominin fossils dated to about 773,000 years ago…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (558+ words) Learn how detailed 3D analysis uncovered evidence that upright walking emerged near the very start of the human lineage. How one of the oldest candidates for a human ancestor moved through its environment has remained an open question. A seven-million-year-old fossil…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1050+ words) Spiked armor, tyrannosaurids, and new discoveries from the early development of birds mark important milestones in 2025 paleontology. Mini tyrannosaurs locked in eternal battle with triceratops, sword-like snouts, and a deeper understanding of the early development of flight are some of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (591+ words) Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us of that ancient world. Fossils have provided scientists with incredible insights into the prehistoric world. This information has…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (510+ words) Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell types. Every cell in an animal's body carries the same DNA. Yet that single genetic blueprint somehow produces neurons that fire,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (436+ words) Learn more about the thousands of dinosaur tracks uncovered on the side of an Italian mountain, and what they tell us about how these dinosaurs moved. Next year, Northern Italy will host the 2026 Winter Olympics. But the region has made…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (559+ words) Learn how researchers discovered what may be the oldest'Palaeoloxodon antiquus tracks in Europe. Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) lived with wolves, deer, and weasel-like mammals in the coastal wildernesses of southern Spain during the Last Interglacial. This, combined with the tracks…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (382+ words) Learn how rare fossil feathers preserved molting patterns, revealing new findings of dinosaur flight. Dinosaur feathers are usually described as evidence of flight. But when researchers recently examined fossils preserved with their feathers intact, and found patterns of feather molting,…...