Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren’t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today—they still had hind legs and even a ...

Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...

Learn how a newly discovered jellyfish species fossil from Quebec reveals how early jellyfish evolved and why soft-bodied life is so rarely preserved.

Multiple groundbreaking studies are rewriting timelines of human evolution, from genetic adaptations over the last 10,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient fossil evidence reshapes the story of the evolution of echidnas and platypuses, revealing a surprising aquatic ancestry.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brooklyn College Professor Stephen Chester (center) points out dental features on an enlarged model of an extinct mammal to ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

Learn how new technology revealed a long-forgotten museum specimen to be a missing link in coelacanth evolution.

A fossil fish skull, Macropoma gombessae, that sat unnoticed in a London museum for nearly 140 years has now changed fish ...

One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire de Casablanca Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood ...

Without it, teeth this small can slip past standard collecting. “This discovery helps fill a gap in understanding the geography and evolution of our earliest primate relatives after dinosaur ...