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130,000-year-old baby mammoth goes under the knifeResearchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.
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'Twins! She has another baby': Sea monster from Chile had 2 buns in the oven, rare fossil revealsAn ichthyosaur was pregnant with twins when she died, a fossil from Cretaceous Chile reveals.
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Alligator-size amphibians died together in Triassic Wyoming, puzzling 'bone bed' revealsThe discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is providing scientists important clues about these creatures' lives.
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Scientists uncover 'inside-out, legless, headless wonder' that lived long before the dinosaursFossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.
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'Exquisitely preserved' ginormous claws from Mongolia reveal strange evolution in dinosaursA new species of dinosaur named Duonychus tsogtbaatari has been discovered by scientists, and unlike other therizinosaurs, this species has only two clawed fingers instead of three.
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25,000-year-old mammoth bones reveal culture of ancient humansArchaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ancient humans processed the mammoths' ivory tusks 25,000 years ago.
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Scientists discover new 15 million-year old fish with last meal fossilized inside its stomachScientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new fish species called Ferruaspis brocksi, which lived 15 million years ago, and some of the fish have their final meals preserved inside their stomachs.
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30,000-year-old fossilized vulture feathers 'nothing like what we usually see' preserved in volcanic ashFossilized vulture feathers that were stunningly preserved in volcanic ash were a mystery until now.
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Refuge from the worst mass extinction in Earth's history discovered fossilized in ChinaThe End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have done okay.
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