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Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs three times their size

A small mammal from the Cretaceous Period appears to have been preserved by volcanic debris while attacking a dinosaur three times its size

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Fossil of pregnant ground sloth discovered with fetus inside

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Bone disease in sabre-toothed tigers may be a sign of inbreeding

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Ancient reptiles' long necks made them vulnerable to decapitation

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Extinct lizard was a bizarrely supersized version of modern skinks

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Woolly mammoths had testosterone surges like those of male elephants

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Broad-nosed ancient shark was one of earliest fish to smell in stereo

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Longest dinosaur neck on record was six times longer than a giraffe's

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Longest dinosaur neck on record was six times longer than a giraffe's

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Oldest ichthyosaur fossil hints they evolved before mass extinction

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Caption: New fossils of Protomelission from the Xiaoshiba biota, showing attachment of the alga to a brachiopod shell. Credit: Zhang Xiguang

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Fossil thought to be earliest bryozoan animal may actually be seaweed

The Cambrian fossil Protomelission was identified in 2021 as a type of coral-like animal called a bryozoan, but new specimens make it look more like a kind of green algae

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Spine of early crawling fish was becoming more like a land animal's

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Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought

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Early relatives of primates lived in the Arctic 52 million years ago

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Treasure trove of fossil eggs hints titanosaurs nested in colonies

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