The fossils had never been investigated in detail before. Even though the remains only consisted of incomplete jaw bones, the researchers soon realized they represented a previously unknown ...

Initially, scientists thought the two-inch-long jaw fossil belonged to a small crocodile, but they soon discovered they were wrong. “It wasn’t until we got it back to the lab and got under a ...

Scientists have made the most detailed study yet of a fossil found in Skye of a mouse or shrew-like creature that lived more than 165 million years ago. The jaw of Borealestes serendipitus was ...

Fossils from two species, Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis, offer important insights into the development ...