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Science & Nature CT scans of a decades-old specimen from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History show a new species of short-snouted crocodylomorph...

Science & Nature Paleontologists have examined 289-million-year-old specimens of the early reptile Captorhinus aguti that preserve a covering of three-dimensional skin, a complete shoulder...

Science & Nature Pohlsepia mazonensis, a cephalopod species first described in 2000 from a 300-million-year-old specimen and featured in the Guinness Book of Records...

Science & Nature Paleontologists at Harvard University have described a large predatory arthropod from the Middle Cambrian of Utah featuring massive three-segmented chelicerae. The post...

Science & Nature Tyrannoroter heberti, a new species of pantylid ‘microsaur’ from the Carboniferous period, shows that some of Earth’s earliest land vertebrates had...

Science & Nature Unseen infrastructural threats to safety and decarbonization may arise as fossil energy systems are phased out...Read MoreGaylene Redner

Science & Nature A new analysis of Naracoorte Cave fossils reveals how wetlands once thrived and then vanished as the climate warmed up to...

Science & Nature The newly-discovered fossil -- a 2.6-million-year-old partial lower jaw found in the Afar region of Ethiopia -- represents the first known...