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Paleontology

Life reconstruction of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui

Bizarre bird from China shows decoupled skull and body

Categories Life & Non-humans
Fossils from the Fezouata Shale. From left to right, a non-mineralized arthropod (Marrellomorpha), a palaeoscolecid worm and a trilobites

Giant arthropods dominated the seas 470 million years ago

Categories Life & Non-humans
Dinosaur illiustration

Before asteroid, dinosaurs we’re killing it

Categories Life & Non-humans
Zuul crurivastator in battle, illustrated by Henry Sharpe. © Henry Sharpe

Ankylosaurs battled each other as much as they fought off T. rex

Categories Life & Non-humans
Fossil – the whole specimen showing the skull (left) and skeleton (base of specimen)

Fossil discovery in storeroom cupboard shifts origin of modern lizard back 35 million years

Categories Life & Non-humans
A Whatcheeria skull in the collections of the Field Museum, with its many sharp teeth visible

Ancient superpredator got big by front-loading its growth in its youth

Categories Life & Non-humans
Artist's impression of an individual 525-million-year-old Cardiodictyon catenulum on the shallow coastal sea floor, emerging from the shelter of a small stromatolite built by photosynthetic bacteria.

525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Colorado State University have reported the discovery of the oldest army ant on record, preserved in Baltic amber dating to the Eocene (~35 million years ago).

Oldest army ant ever discovered reveals iconic predator once raided Europe

Categories Life & Non-humans
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