A newly identified fossil bird, Navaornis hestiae, from the Mesozoic Era has provided crucial information about the evolutionary development of bird brains, connecting ancient species like ...

Since 1997, Wang Xiaolin and his team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese ...

and associate professor of paleontology Yoshitsugu Kobayashi of Hokkaido University. “Rather than a geographic oddity, we submit that the tracks described here offer further insight into the ...

These new species, described in a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, represent the oldest known members of the Thylacine family, estimated to be 25-23 million years old, ...

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The world’s second-smallest vertebrate has been discovered—a tiny toad living in a Brazilian rainforest. Researchers measured the flea toad at just over a quarter-inch in length (6.95 ...

All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...

Vigilant and authoritative, Hone sounds the alarm on the at times impulsive and rash nature of paleontology. “Much of the scientific literature tends toward a confidence in interpreting ...

“One of the individuals measured 6.95 mm, which is currently the second smallest adult vertebrate ever described, only larger than another individual of a different congeneric [belonging to the ...

Tang. By Robin Pogrebin After 220 years of existence, New-York Historical Society is changing its name to the New York Historical, and will christen a new wing devoted to American democracy after ...

In the culmination of a decade-long effort, they have completed a compilation of cancer prevalence across 292 species of vertebrates, including amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. This broad ...