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Fossil Teeth Reveal Ancient Mammal’s Shift to Bone-Crunching and Size Reduction During Extreme Warming

Flexible diets enabled mammals to endure the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum; the finding offers a model to gauge modern species’ adaptive capacity

Scientists Name New Long-Necked Plesiosaur From Germany’s Jurassic Fossil Beds

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Behavioral Drive Preceded Dental Evolution in Early Hominins

Study Confirms 450-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Was Roman Amulet

Mammoth Cave Yields Fifth New Shark Species: Macadens olsoni

First Soft-Bodied Cambrian Fossils Found in Grand Canyon Reveal Evolutionary ‘Goldilocks Zone’

PLOS One Confirms First Mixed-Species Dinosaur Herd and Spurs New Tracksite Discoveries

Giant Caiman Tooth Marks Reveal Terror Bird’s Fatal Encounter in Miocene Colombia

Carboniferous Specimen Confirmed as Earliest Nonmarine Lobopodian

Global Study Reveals Hidden Dermal Armour in Goannas and Nearly Half of Lizards

Temnodontosaurus Flipper Fossil Reveals Cartilage Structures for Silent Swimming

Denver Museum Exhibits Deep-Bore Dinosaur Vertebra Discovered Under Parking Lot

Paleontologists Describe North America’s Oldest Pterosaur From Arizona Bonebed

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools from China Overturn East Asian Paleolithic Narratives

Neanderthals Organized Large-Scale Bone Fat Extraction 125,000 Years Ago

Largest Martian Meteorite Goes on View in New York Ahead of $4 Million Auction

Amber Fossils Extend Ophiocordyceps Lineage Back to 133 Million Years

Amber Fossils Push Origin of Insect-Manipulating Fungi Back to 133 Million Years

Grinding Tomography Reveals 40 New Squid Species in 100-Million-Year-Old Rock

Poland’s Mammoth Tusk Boomerang Dated to 40,000 Years Ago