Fossils

Fossils

Early birds ready to rumble

A fossil hints that prehistoric baby birds could have fed themselves soon after hatching.

Fossils

Hunting by sucking, long ago

An ancient sea creature with a snakelike neck may have sucked up its prey.

Fossils

Ferocious growth spurts

Teenage tyrannosaurs packed on the pounds.

Fossils

Dino bite leaves a tooth

Meat-eating dinosaurs sometimes feasted on flying reptiles.

Fossils

Fingerprinting fossils

Researchers can find out in what kind of soil a fossil was originally buried.

Fossils

Ancient critter caught shedding Its skin

A fossil reveals that ancient animals shed their skin, just as insects and crustaceans do today.

Fossils

Winged insects may go way back

A fossil's mouthparts hint that winged insects lived on Earth 400 million years ago.

Fossils

Teeny Skull Reveals Ancient Ancestor

A tiny fossil skull represents the earliest known ancestor of monkeys and apes.

Fossils

Dinosaurs grow up

Learning how fast dinosaurs grew may help link birds to dinosaurs.

Earth

Killer space rock snuffed out ancient life

Rock fragments from Antarctica suggest a huge meteor struck Earth 250 million years ago.

Fossils

Did dinosaurs do handstands?

Enormous dinosaurs might have balanced on their front feet when wading in shallow water.

Fossils

Watery fate for nature’s gliders

Fossil bones hint that sea-level increases doomed Atlantic albatross populations.