Evolution Diary

Neil Shubin and his artist, Kalliopi Monoyios, have made available sets of Powerpoint slides from Your Inner Fish. (…)

The discovery of a dog-size T. rex ancestor may rewrite dinosaur evolutionary history, a new study says. (…)

A new species of extinct pygmy sea cow (illustrated above with skull inset) is one of the first fossil mammal species found in Madagascar from the mysterious time period between 80 million years ago and 90,000 years ago, experts say. (…)

Swarms of up to a thousand giant trilobites—extinct marine arthropods such as this 35-inch-long (90-centimeter-long) fossil specimen—roamed shallow prehistoric seas, new fossils show. (…)

Jurassic Park was packed with pseudo-science, but one of its fictions may have accidentally anticipated a dinosaur discovery announced today—venomous raptors. (…)