-
52 million years ago, strange primates lived in complete darkness in the ArcticDuring the Eocene, the Arctic was a warm, swampy place that these primates called home.
-
Never-before-seen pterosaur had nearly 500 teeth and ate like a flamingoA never-before-seen species of pterosaur had hundreds of hooked teeth that helped it filter its food in a similar way to living flamingos.
-
Extinct giant tortoise was the 'mammoth' of Madagascar 1,000 years agoA previously unknown extinct tortoise was revealed in an investigation on these giants' evolutionary history.
-
Ancient bird with T. rex-like skull discovered in ChinaA 120 million-year-old bird fossil from China has some rather unusual dinosaur-like features in its otherwise standard avian skeleton, including a weirdly T. rex-like skull.
-
Noodle-necked swimming dinosaur may have been a diving predator like a penguinScientists recently discovered the first non-avian theropod dinosaur with a streamlined body similar to that of penguins, auks and other modern diving birds.
-
'Dwarf dinosaur' that lived on prehistoric island unearthed in TransylvaniaThe new "dwarf dinosaur" species lends more evidence to the "island rule," which posits that animals evolving on islands become smaller than their mainland counterparts.
-
'Frightful' never-before-seen tyrannosaur might be the 'missing link' in T. rex evolutionPaleontologists have discovered fossils belonging to a newfound species of tyrannosaur, which could fill an important gap in the evolutionary history of T. rex.
-
Ravenous meat-eating dinosaur's guts preserved in exceptionally rare fossilPaleontologists in China have examined the remarkable gut remnants of a birdlike dinosaur that lived more than 100 million years ago.
-
Giant, ostrich-like dinosaur and its smaller cousin roamed Mississippi during the late CretaceousA giant, ostrich-like dinosaur and its smaller cousin, also an ornithomimosaur, sprinted through what is now Mississippi about 85 million years ago.
