The new fossil was unearthed in a remote part of Argentinian Patagonia—and had teeth comparable to a T. rex, says National Geographic Explorer Diego Pol. The fossil skull of Kostensuchus atrox, a ...

PARAISO DO SUL, Brazil, Nov 27 (Reuters) - When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he could barely imagine his discovery ...

Earliest oceanic tetrapod ecosystem from 249 million years ago. A pod of the small-bodied ichthyopterygian (‘fish-lizard’) Grippia longirostris hunting squid-like ammonoids (center). A school of the ...

A newly identified, armor-plated reptile from southern Brazil is rewriting what we know about life just before the age of dinosaurs. Although it looked strikingly like a dinosaur at first glance, the ...

A newly discovered armored predator from Brazil, Tainrakuasuchus bellator, looked strikingly like a dinosaur but was actually an early cousin of modern crocodiles. Credit: Caio Fantini “Extremely rare ...

In 2015, a team of scientists began digging through frozen cliffs on an Arctic island named Spitsbergen in search of fossils from ancient marine life. The location was remote, the work was exhausting, ...

A small, meat-eating dinosaur from India has been given a name, and it changes the story of early predatory dinosaurs. The animal, Maleriraptor kuttyi, lived about 220 million years ago and helps ...

Neanderthals are the subject of an enduring debate regarding possible nasal adaptations and their impact on craniofacial morphology. Yet, this debate has been strongly influenced by the lack of a ...