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Science & Nature Using high-resolution CT and synchrotron scanning, paleontologists confirmed that the fossilized specimen from the Early Triassic of the South African Karoo...

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

Science & Nature A newly-described partial skeleton from the Koobi Fora Formation in northern Kenya is giving paleoanthropologists their most complete picture yet of...

Science & Nature The newly-discovered theropod and sauropod footprints are part of the Late Jurassic Majala Formation, and represent the oldest dinosaur footprints reported...

Science & Nature Paleoanthropologists have examined and reconstructed DAN5, a 1.5-million-year-old fossilized skull of early Homo erectus found in Gona in the Afar region...

Science & Nature Platysomus parvulus, a species of ray-finned fish that lived 310 million years ago, had a unique way of eating never seen...