Helium-3 dating reveals new plankton species emerged within thousands—and sometimes just 2,000—years after the dinosaur-killing impact, showing life recovered far faster than assumed.

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

He might have been King of the Dinosaurs, but T.Rex likely ran on his tip–toes, according to a new study. Since the release ...

To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

The tiny remnant belongs to Purgatorius, one of the earliest known relatives of all primates, including humans, which first ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate relatives spread after the mass extinction.

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Learn how newly discovered Purgatorius fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin are filling gaps in the Paleocene fossil record and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: • Scientists discovered that life rebounded at extraordinary speed after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, with new plankton species evolving ...