A centuries-old horse tooth holds clues to the mystery of the Chincoteague ponies
Ancient DNA from the 16th-century tooth indicates the horse was most closely related to the famous Chincoteague pony breed.
Ancient DNA from the 16th-century tooth indicates the horse was most closely related to the famous Chincoteague pony breed.
A swamp in Germany may have been a sex death trap for hundreds of frogs and other water-breeding creatures 45 million years ago.
Tens of millions of years before bats, birds, or pterosaurs, insects with wings took to the skies. Earth was never the same.
Digging through Klondike permafrost, a Canadian gold miner stumbled upon one of the best woolly mammoth specimens found in North America.
The prevailing theory to why giraffes have long necks is for feeding in the treetops. But new ‘helmet head’ fossils show mating competition could have been a factor as well.
Fossils of feathery-looking sea creatures that formed prehistoric animal communities give clues to the ‘Cambrian explosion’ of evolution.
Resin hardened into amber gives AMNH paleontologists a look at fossilized insects and plants as prehistoric as the Cretaceous period.
A fossil of an extinct owl from northern China is the earliest example of a daytime hunter from that group of birds.
Most dinosaurs dwelled on land, but a new bone study suggests that this spiny Cretaceous predator may have been a decent swimmer.
Paleontologists identified the oldest known ancestor to vampire squids and octopuses—and its fossil reveals a surprising number of arms.