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Lemurs, lorises and galagoes have nails on most digits and grooming claws on their second toes

Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails

The best-preserved fossil of the group includes the skull, forelimbs, part of a backbone and a partial hind limb of a small, juvenile frog now known as Electrorana limoae.

Amber fossils provide oldest evidence of frogs in wet, tropical forests

This silk-wrapped tick subsequently was entombed in amber that may have dripped from a nearby tree.

For 100 million years, amber freezes a tableau of tick’s worst...

Postdoctoral Fellow Theodore Them (left, holding an extinct fossil sample) and Assistant Professor Jeremy Owens (right, holding a rock core sample).

Volcanic activity, declining ocean oxygen triggered mass extinction of ancient organisms

Brasilestes stardusti

Oldest mammal in Brazil lived in the age of dinosaurs

Gorynychus masyutinae

‘Monstrous’ new Russian saber-tooth fossils clarify early evolution of mammal lineage

Amber

Tiny paragliding beetle that lived with dinosaurs discovered in amber, named...

giant azhdarchid pterosaur Hatzegopteryx

Jurassic diet: Why our knowledge of what ancient pterosaurs ate might...

Ediacaran Dengying Formation

Researchers report the earliest fossil footprints

Tutusius and Umzantsia

First tetrapods of Africa lived within the Devonian Antarctic Circle

Dinoflagellate cysts

Red tide fossils point to Jurassic sea flood

Lyrarapax unguispinus

Earth’s first giant predators produced killer babies

Megachirella wachtleri

World’s oldest lizard fossil discovered

An asteroid impact 66 million years ago

Life recovered rapidly at impact site of dino-killing asteroid

Spinosaurus

The smallest biggest theropod dinosaur

dandruff

Dino-bird dandruff research head and shoulders above rest

The asteroid impact that eliminated non-avian dinosaurs destroyed global forests.

When the dinosaurs died, so did forests — and tree-dwelling birds

Pterodactyls

Study casts doubt on traditional view of pterosaur flight

Cifelliodon wahkarmoosuch

Utah fossil reveals global exodus of mammals’ near relatives to major...

Apalone spinifera spiny softshell turtle

Genome structure of dinosaurs discovered by bird-turtle comparisons

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