Genetic details from the animal, named Yuka, give a snapshot into its last moments alive. The mammoth had been preserved in permafrost for 40,000 years.
The fossils’ fabulous colors arise from delicate assemblies of crystal plates.
This field of study does more than just organize living things. It also reflects the history of life's evolution.
Now known as Nanotyrannus, this mini dino could have roamed the late Cretaceous alongside T. rex.
The corpses had been slow-dried over fires 12,000 years ago — millennia before Egyptians began mummifying their dead.
Fossilized footprints can help calculate how fast dinosaurs moved. But tests with guinea fowl show that past estimates might not be right.
Birds don’t look like the scaly giants of Jurassic World. But fossils are revealing how these modern-day dinosaurs descended from ancient reptiles.
The reptiles’ horns could help or hinder during foraging, depending on how they hunt. This might be why horns evolved in some species and not others.
This field of science looks to understand life — past and present — by studying how organisms altered their surroundings.
