The remains of Fujianvenator prodigiosus 30 million years older than any confirmed bird fossil, paleontologists say, could reveal never-before-seen insights into critical early stages of bird evolution. Chinese scientists say the previously unknown…

A team of Peruvian and American scientists have uncovered the 18-million-year-old remains of the smallest fossil monkey ever found. The primate specimen is an unworn M1 of exceptionally small size (equivalent in size to the extant callitrichine,…