The team noted that some remains belong to people who had done very little physical activity during their lifetimes while ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

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Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Paleontologists in France have uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved 70-million-year-old titanosaur skeleton. The ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

The skeleton was collected in New Mexico's San Juan Basin by co-author Thomas Williamson, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, under a permit from the ...

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had ...