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Study Links T. Rex’s Tiny Arms to Bigger, Stronger Skulls

A May 2026 peer‑reviewed analysis finds a repeated evolutionary shift that concentrated anatomical investment in skull strength rather than forelimb size.

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Fossil Endocasts Show Pterosaurs Evolved Flight-Ready Brains Independently of Birds

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Rare C31 Chemical Fossils Strengthen Case That Sponges Were Among Earth’s First Animals

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Jurassic 'False Snake' From Skye Described as New Species, Complicating Snake Origins

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Ancient Armoured Fish Push Tooth Replacement Origins Back 380 Million Years

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Researchers Recover 24-Million-Year-Old Proteins, Redrawing Rhino Evolution

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Trace Fossils Push Back Cambrian Explosion by 15 Million Years

Paleontology

Study Links T. Rex’s Tiny Arms to Bigger, Stronger Skulls

New Cretaceous Bird Plumadraco Has Tail Feathers Twice Its Body Length

Study Links Tiny Theropod Arms to Bigger, Stronger Skulls

Study Links Tiny T. rex Arms to the Rise of Powerful Jaws

New Fossils and Geochemistry Redraw Origins of Complex Life

First Mammal-Ancestor Egg Found Confirms Lystrosaurus Laid Eggs

Chinese Fossil Trove Pushes Complex Animal Origins Into the Ediacaran

Oldest Chelicerate Fossil Dates to 500 Million Years Ago

New Triassic Croc-Line Reptile Grew From Four-Legged Juvenile to Bipedal Adult

Permian Tetrapod From Brazil Reveals Twisted, Plant‑Grinding Jaw

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Oldest Articulated Bony Fish and Giant Megamastax Redraw Osteichthyan Origins

Tiny Teeth Found in Colorado Extend Range of Earliest Primate Relative

Ordovician Mass Extinction Set the Stage for the Rise of Jawed Fishes

Fossil Brain Scans Point to Rapid Origin of Pterosaur Flight

Fossil Endocasts Show Pterosaurs Evolved Flight-Ready Brains Independently of Birds

Rare C31 Chemical Fossils Strengthen Case That Sponges Were Among Earth’s First Animals

Jurassic 'False Snake' From Skye Described as New Species, Complicating Snake Origins

Ancient Armoured Fish Push Tooth Replacement Origins Back 380 Million Years

Researchers Recover 24-Million-Year-Old Proteins, Redrawing Rhino Evolution

Trace Fossils Push Back Cambrian Explosion by 15 Million Years

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