Fossils

For over a century, scientists have puzzled over a fundamental mystery in our evolutionary history: how did mammals go from…

Climate change and declining biodiversity are the two biggest environmental crises facing humankind today, but predicting how they’ll play out…

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of…

A new study from McGill University is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using…

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in…

Amber is coveted the world over as both jewelry and a vessel for prehistoric remnants, with rarer specimens preserving ancient…

Fossil fish so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able to reconstruct their final days from up to 16m years…