A long-standing question in paleontology is whether dinosaurs could have evolved intelligence similar to that of humans. One intriguing theory comes from paleontologist Dale Russell, who ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

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Megafauna, though not dinosaur sized, had by then grown large enough to have ... But it’s clear to Doughty that there was a correlation between humans arriving and hunting the animals and the ...

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

A 2023 study found that "neither troodon nor any other dinosaur could have begun a primate-like lineage that evolved to a human level of intelligence." That said, modern-day birds show that ...