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A new analysis suggests that sugar played a central part in human evolution

Research suggests primate brains didn't get big for thinking, they got big for seeing: across 56 million years of fossil skulls, the frontal lobe is the same fraction of the brain in humans as in tree shrews, while vision-processing regions grew along with the optic nerve.

Early snakes might have been specialized burrowers

Fossil footprints reveal body size and group dynamics of 1.4-million-year-old human relative: New study provides a rare snapshot of “fossil behavior” from Paranthropus boisei…

Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, ‘charbroiling’ Cretaceous creatures

Genetic analysis suggests prehistoric people selectively hunted female woolly mammoths

New plant-munching long-necked dinosaur from 130 million years ago uncovered in Thailand

Jurassic avialan reveals stepwise evolution of bony tail in birds

New fossil site suggests flowering plants were already thriving 10 million years before the dinosaur extinction

Otodus megalodon vertebrae from Denmark

Newly identified fossil sheds light on evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats

Early land vertebrates' shift from water to land didn’t require amphibian-like metamorphosis, fossils reveal

Scientists discover a new species of four-"winged" microraptor dinosaur, Jian changmaensis, that likely glided like a flying squirrel and targeted prehistoric birds 120 million years ago.

A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica is found tucked away in a drawer

Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte

High-fidelity modular skeletons authenticate a Cambrian origin for Bryozoa

Animal, plant, fungal DNA in squirrel latrine paints picture of Arctic grasslands in Age of Mammoths

Paleontologists just found the peacock of the dinosaur era: « Dubbed the “Banko’s feather dragon,” the extinct bird’s tail feathers were twice the length of its entire body

A new metatherian order from Australia (Keeunamorphia, Metatheria), and new Early Miocene species from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland

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Dinosaurs emerged 10 million years before the earliest unambiguous dinosaur fossils

Giant new dinosaur identified from remains found in Thailand.

New large pterosaur tracks from Korea and their implications on terrestrial behavior

Scientists believe birds’ skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinosaurs

Scientists confirm Nanotyrannus was a real, distinct species not a juvenile T. rex

Oldest octopus fossil is no octopus at all scans reveal.

Fossil from about half a billion years ago reveals that an early relative of spiders and scorpions had claws

Fossils reveal many complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion

A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest Norian or Rhaetian) highlights herrerasaurian diversity in the latest Triassic

Modern apes may have actually evolved in North Africa or the Middle East

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