For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.  ...

Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).