The earliest months of Neanderthal life have remained one of the least understood chapters of human evolution. Fossils from ...

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 ...

When we think of fossils it is usually of dinosaurs, or perhaps the beautiful spiral shape of an ammonite picked up on a beach during a summer holiday. We see fossils as ancient relics of the deep ...

At first, it just looks like another rough fossil oyster pulled from an ancient riverbank. Then the saw goes through it, and ...

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tooth fossils hint that size came before specialised feeding in early Asian mammals. The story of how mammals rose to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 fossilised seashells from the Earth’s current ...