A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

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

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

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

This little critter hadn’t previously been identified south of Montana, but tiny, fossilized teeth show it had traveled into Colorado by around half a million years after the dinosaurs were wiped out.

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

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 ...

More than 300 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur let out a roar, a small, four-legged creature was busy nibbling on plants in what is now Nova Scotia. The animal, newly described as ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial ...

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see the world using four camera-type eyes, reshaping our understanding of how ...

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...