Researchers settled on the name "Heleocola," or "swamp dweller," because it likely lived by rivers and swampy locations ...

These fossils, belonging to the mammal-precursor species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis, offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and middle ear ...

These fossils, belonging to the mammal-precursor species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis, offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and middle ear, ...

This makes fossils of early mammalian jaws essential clues to how this unique jaw set up arose over the course of evolution. “Mammals are defined by what mammals eat with–jaws and teeth ...

Scientists who identify, analyze, and classify fossils are called paleontologists ... The saber-toothed tiger was capable of opening its jaw over 90 degrees ©Daniel Eskridge/Shutterstock.com ...

The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 bones in all representing a whopping 40 percent of the skeleton ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested.

MIZUNAMI, Gifu Prefecture--Fossils uncovered here are thought to offer a key to resolving how seals and walruses went their separate ways in evolution. A lower jaw fossil of a pinniped was found ...

All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...

"The jaw, the teeth, everything was so much bigger than most mammal fossils you see out of the Cretaceous rocks around there. I thought, 'That's huge,'" said John Foster, curator of collections at ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...