Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of ...

Scientists have described Tanyka amnicola, a newly identified species of prehistoric creature that lived 275 million years ...

Scientists in Patagonia unearthed the nearly complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, one of the world's tiniest dinosaurs. This crow-sized theropod, weighing just 0.7 kg, hunted small prey ...

Based on these details, its closest evolutionary relatives, and its river habitat, the study’s authors believe Tanyka likely resembled a three-foot-long salamander sporting a lengthier snout. But at ...

Learn how Permian-era fossils from Brazil led researchers to a tetrapod with a twisted jaw from a lineage once thought ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight ...

While the search for more Tanyka bones continues, the find is already helping researchers solve another puzzle—filling in the ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the ...

A new scientific study led by paleontologist Stephen Chester , an Anthropology professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and ...