Although they laid eggs like reptiles, they were warm-blooded, which links them closer to mammals. Their bodies, about 3.3 feet (1 meter) long, resembled a dog without ears or fur, but with saber-like ...

Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.

Tour guides at SLAC, as it is known today, refer to the fossils as being the lab’s first discovery. The name of the primeval creature has changed over the years. Originally known as Paleoparadoxia, it ...

The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have ...

New research, published in Quaternary Science Reviews, has considered mammal fossils of gazelle, hare and fox from Jordan to examine these shifts in body size 24,000 to 7,500 years ago ...

Most mammals have a dental tool kit of differently shaped teeth. In our own mouths ... that helped them navigate a dinosaur-filled world. Fossils preserving the body coverings of proto-mammals ...

LAMBERT: The lives of pterosaurs are still pretty mysterious. Despite their gargantuan size, their bones are actually quite delicate, and so fossils are rare. This find turned out to be a juvenile, ...

Sabre-toothed predators -- best know from the infamous Smilodon -- evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A new study reveals why: these teeth were 'functionally optimal' and ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the smallest known cat fossil at a site inhabited by archaic humans in eastern China. This diminutive feline, which has been identified as an extinct species of leopard ...