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Archaeopteryx Fossil Reveals Bird-Like Mouth Features Linked to Flight Demands

A peer-reviewed study of the Field Museum’s Chicago specimen identifies mouth structures found in living birds.

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Helium-3 Dating Reveals Rapid Post-Impact Evolution in Ocean Plankton

Fossil Endocasts Show Pterosaurs Evolved Flight-Ready Brains Independently of Birds

67-Million-Year-Old Alberta Fossil Recasts Otophysan Fish Origins

New Chemical Fossils Strengthen Case That Sponges Were Earth’s Earliest Animals

310-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Earliest Tongue-Bite in Ray-Finned Fish

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

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

Cambrian Fossil Reveals Spider Brain Structure and Sea Origin for Arachnids

Landmark Study Chronicles 35-Million-Year Evolution and Extinction of Sloths

Study Confirms Teeth Evolved from Sensory Armor of Ancient Fish