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CT-scan-based skull restoration and life reconstruction of the toothed stem bird Ichthyornis dispar, a primitive seabird that prospered about 85 million years ago along the warm, shallow inland sea that once split North America, is shown in this image released on May 2, 2018. Credit: Michael Hanson and Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar/Handout via Reuters

New Fossils Reveal More About Ancient Bird With Blended Dinosaur, Avian Traits

Will Dunham 03/05/2018

Fossils like those of Ichthyornis, which had both dinosaurian...

A close-up view of the teeth accompanying the left maxilla of human remains from Misliya Cave in Israel, the oldest remains of our species Homo sapiens found outside Africa, is provided in this photo released on January 25, 2018. Credit: Handout via Reuters/ Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University

Fossil Jawbone Found in Israel Is the Oldest Modern Human Found Outside Africa

Rolf Quam 26/01/2018

New discoveries are changing archaeologists' ideas about the origins...

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Devapriya and the New Era of Indian Palaeontology

Nandita Jayaraj 05/11/2017

For a couple of weeks every year, a team...

Ancient Crocodile Genus Named After Motörhead’s Lemmy

Will Dunham 10/08/2017

Scientists said they have named the 19-foot-long reptile...

A handout photo of the lower jaw of the 7.175 million year old Graecopithecus freybergi (El Graeco) from Pyrgos Vassilissis, Greece

Fossils Cast Doubt on Human Lineage Originating in Africa

Will Dunham 23/05/2017

Fossils from Greece and Bulgaria of an ape-like creature...

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We Might Have to Completely Redraw the Dinosaur Family Tree

Michael J. Benton 23/03/2017

A new fossil study challenges 130 years of thinking...

An X-ray tomographic picture of fossil thread-like red algae, tinted to show detail

1.6-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Found in Chitrakoot May Represent Earliest-Known Plants

Will Dunham 15/03/2017

Until now, the oldest-known plants were 1.2-billion-year-old red algae...