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A recent study published in Papers in Palaeontology describes the discovery and identification of a new species of pinheirodontid multituberculate based on the preserved hemimandible from the Upper ...

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 ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made with the finding of a new species of pinheirodontid multituberculate from the Upper Jurassic period in the Freixial Formation, located in Portugal. The fossil, ...

A new examination of teeth from 11 Neanderthal and early human fossils shows that modern humans are slower than our ancestors to reach full maturity (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

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 ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

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 ...

A possible sponge fossil dating back 890 million years could be the oldest animal ever discovered. Not all researchers are convinced that the markings left in the rock were made by an animal but, if ...

Fossil horn corals. The corals are about 450 million years old and represent a group of marine organisms commonly found in the fossil record. The specimen is part of the collection of the UW-Madison ...