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500-Million-Year-Old Chelicerate Pushes Back Spider Lineage by 20 Million Years

The fossil’s front claws point to an origin in grasping “great appendages.”

Genome Study Recasts Squid and Cuttlefish Evolution From Deep-Sea Origins to a Post-Extinction Boom

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Egypt Jaw Fossil Recasts Great Ape Origins

Snorkel Survey of a Texas Water Cave Uncovers Ice Age Megafauna New to Central Texas

Micro‑CT Reveals New Korean Dinosaur Species, Doolysaurus, From Juvenile Skeleton

Elephant Tooth Isotopes Tie Neanderthal Hunting to Long-Range Prey at Neumark-Nord

New Mexico Shinbone Reveals Giant Tyrannosaur Predating T. Rex

Spielberg-Backed ‘The Dinosaurs’ Roars to No. 1 on Netflix After Debut

Virtual Reconstruction Reveals Little Foot’s Face, Hinting East African Affinities

Permian Tetrapod From Brazil Reveals Twisted, Plant‑Grinding Jaw

Tiny Teeth Found in Colorado Extend Range of Earliest Primate Relative

Oldest Articulated Bony Fish and Giant Megamastax Redraw Osteichthyan Origins

Jurassic Park Paleontologist Jack Horner No Longer With Chapman University After DOJ Epstein Emails

Digital Reconstruction Reveals ‘Little Foot’ Face with East African Traits

Pharrell’s Joopiter to Auction Museum-Shown Triceratops ‘Trey’ March 17–31

Amber Time Capsules Hint at Ancient Ant Interactions

Nearly Complete Patagonian Fossil Recasts the Origins of Alvarezsaurids

Tiny Argentine Dinosaur Fossil Reshapes Alvarezsaur Evolution and Global Spread

Switzerland Formalizes Return of Araripe Fossils as Brazil Receives Lots From Argentina and Italy

Reanalysis of Lost WA Fossils Splits Iconic Triassic Amphibian Into Two Species