fossils
He stood a majestic 5-foot-5, weighed around 100 pounds and maybe had a harem. That's what scientists figure from the footprints he left behind some 3.7 million year ago.
New research from North Carolina State University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Linyi University has found evidence of original keratin and melanosome preservation in a 130-million-year-old Eoconfuciusornis specimen.
The researchers say it's possible that dinosaurs had bigger brains than we give them credit for.
Savannasaurus was a medium-sized titanosaur, approximately half the length of a basketball court, with a long neck and a relatively short tail.
The Higgs Bison - mystery species hidden in cave art across Europe, the Urals, and the Caucasus.
Scientists have analyzed the structure of a 66 million-year-old vocal organ belonging to an extinct Antarctic bird.
"It's quite amazing -- hundreds of people must walk past this skeleton every day, yet its secrets have only just been uncovered."
Newly recovered fossils confirm that Drepanosaurus, a prehistoric cross between a chameleon and an anteater, was a small reptile with a fearsome finger. The second digit of its forelimb sported a massive claw.