When the identification of a fossil animal is completely based on a single bone, the design of the bone is important. Another Permian animal with no complete body akin only to the low jaws has a ...

“Tanyka is from an ancient lineage that we didn’t know survived to this time, and it’s also just a really strange animal,” Jason Pardo, the study’s lead author, said in a statement. “The jaw has this ...

The remains of a "weird" creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant-eater Tanyka was a “living fossil” when it stalked ...

Of the few courses of value I have enrolled in while at Rutgers, one of my most favorite was the paleontology class taught by William Gallagher from the NJ State Museum (which, coincidentally, has ...

With so few fossils mapping out the transition debates went on for decades about the details of how vertebrates became adapted to life on land. This was not helped by some delays in the description of ...

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"I'm stunned." says Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University, who coordinated the study; "A single track-bearing slab, which one person can lift, calls into question everything we thought we knew about when ...

Q: Tell me about some of the important fossils you've found in Pennsylvania. TD: One of the fascinating things we discovered early in the project was an animal that we named Hynerpeton, which means ...

Out of the ocean An armour of acid-neutralising bone helped four-legged vertebrates to survive when they first crawled out of the ocean, say researchers. Palaeontologist Dr Christine Janis, from Brown ...

The fossil record of the earliest tetrapods (vertebrates with limbs rather than paired fins) consists of body fossils and trackways. The earliest body fossils of tetrapods date to the Late Devonian ...

Learn how Permian-era fossils from Brazil led researchers to a tetrapod with a twisted jaw from a lineage once thought ...