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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

Behavioral Drive Preceded Dental Evolution in Early Hominins

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

Greenland Fossils Show Cambrian ‘Squid’ Were Ancestors of Arrow Worms

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

Carboniferous Specimen Confirmed as Earliest Nonmarine Lobopodian

Mirasaura Grauvogeli Shows Feather-Like Crest Evolved Separately in Triassic Reptiles

Cambrian Fossil Reveals Spider Brain Structure and Sea Origin for Arachnids

Pterosaur Fossil Reveals First Direct Evidence of Herbivory

Temnodontosaurus Flipper Fossil Reveals Cartilage Structures for Silent Swimming

24-Million-Year-Old Rhino Enamel Proteins Recovered, Dinosaur Fossils Next

Researchers Recover 24-Million-Year-Old Proteins, Redrawing Rhino Evolution

Paleontologists Describe North America’s Oldest Pterosaur From Arizona Bonebed

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

Newly Identified Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae to Debut at London’s Natural History Museum

New Armored Lizard Species Identified From 77-Million-Year-Old Utah Fossils

Collagen Peptide Markers Unlock Identities of Extinct Australian Megafauna

Traskasaura sandrae Named as New Genus, Resolving 40-Year Fossil Mystery

Study Confirms Teeth Evolved from Sensory Armor of Ancient Fish

Chicago Archaeopteryx Reveals New Insights into Early Bird Flight