Discovery of rare fossil fragments in Texas In 2023, a private fossil hunter uncovered two jaw fragments belonging to ...

Modern North American porcupines are at least twice the size of their southern cousins and have stronger jaws. But how long ...

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Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving? Groundbreaking fossil research links plate tectonics with ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

The now extinct species of panda was found in Germany for the first time and its teeth offer clues to its lifestyle.

Fossils in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History research collection in its Department of Paleobiology. Before this study, a reliable temperature curve for the Phanerozoic did not yet ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

All are invited to the Idaho Museum of Natural History, on the Pocatello campus of Idaho State University, for the annual ...