UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

In 2019, local school principal Ross Dullard found a partial skull of a Janjucetus – an extinct baleen whale – while on a walk near Jan Juc on Victoria’s Surf Coast. The 25-million-year-old fossil was ...