Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil ...

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – A team of researchers has identified an Ice Age relative of the muskox from fossils uncovered in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The new species, named Speleotherium logani, ...

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...

When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the piece of history? It’s not as simple as you may think. To discover more about jaw-dropping finds–like the ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

Artistic reconstruction of a newly hatched troodontid-like dinosaur resting among fragments of its eggshell (loosely based on Mongolian microtroodontid-type). These eggshells, when buried within ...

Paranthropus boisei fossils date to 1.52 million years ago Species was a member of the human evolutionary lineage Fossils show it would have been able to grasp stone tools Oct 17 (Reuters) - ...

If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil has been determined to be a new genus and species of an ice age relative of the musk ox.