Tour guides at SLAC, as it is known today, refer to the fossils as being the lab’s first discovery. The name of the primeval creature has changed over the years. Originally known as Paleoparadoxia, it ...

Tour guides at SLAC, as it is known today, refer to the fossils as being the lab’s first discovery. The name of the primeval creature has changed over the years. Originally known as Paleoparadoxia, it ...

New research, published in Quaternary Science Reviews, has considered mammal fossils of gazelle, hare and fox from Jordan to examine these shifts in body size 24,000 to 7,500 years ago ...

Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.

Sabre-toothed predators -- best know from the infamous Smilodon -- evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A new study reveals why: these teeth were 'functionally optimal' and ...

In the heart of San Francisco, California, there’s a place where the curious and the quirky collide, where the past meets the ...

LAMBERT: The lives of pterosaurs are still pretty mysterious. Despite their gargantuan size, their bones are actually quite delicate, and so fossils are rare. This find turned out to be a juvenile, ...

Jan. 31, 2025 — DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver. Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ...

Their study not only highlights the diversity in tooth shapes and hunting strategies but also discusses the species’ susceptibility to extinction and its implications for evolutionary biology.