David Hocking is a postdoctoral fellow with Monash University and receives funding from an Australian Research Council Linkage Project between Monash University and Museums Victoria (LP150100403).

Scientists recently uncovered a new dinosaur — and its ancient leftovers – in a tourist hot spot in Argentina. The dinosaur, which measured 23 feet long, is called Joaquinraptor casali. Its discovery ...

One of its claws might feed an entire family, but this sea creature would be more likely to eat the family. British researchers said Tuesday that they have discovered an 18-inch-long fossilized claw ...

An artist's reconstruction of Yawunik kootenayi. A newly discovered Cambrian predator with a wicked set of arms under its four-eyed face reveals that early arthropods were experimentalists when it ...

Humans and other primates are outliers among mammals for having nails instead of claws. But how, when and why we transitioned from claws to nails has been an evolutionary head-scratcher. Now, new ...

Newly recovered fossils confirm that Drepanosaurus, a prehistoric cross between a chameleon and an anteater, was a small reptile with a fearsome finger. The second digit of its forelimb sported a ...

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About 200 million years ago, a reptile resembling a chameleon wielded a digit on each of its front legs with a massive claw, and used that claw as a digging tool in a manner similar to that of modern ...

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New Delhi: The discovery of ancient fossil footprints of claws in Australia have scientists across the world re-examining evolutionary times of land-based vertebrates. A study published in Nature ...

In this illustration set 212 million years ago in what is today New Mexico, a Drepanosaurus rips away tree bark with its massive claw and powerful arm. (Painting by Victor Leshyk) Newly recovered ...