Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...
Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren’t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today—they still had hind legs and even a ...
Fresh fossil analyses suggest the Kotlin Crisis 550 million years ago wiped out up to 80% of marine species, making it ...
A study using ancient DNA has identified notable evolutionary adjustments to dietary, settlement, disease and other changes ...
The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...
Long before dinosaurs dominated the land, Earth was shaped by unfamiliar seas, shifting continents, and experimental forms of ...
A fossil fish skull, Macropoma gombessae, that sat unnoticed in a London museum for nearly 140 years has now changed fish ...
Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...
For decades, a collection of fossil fragments sat forgotten in museum drawers — a paleontological “cold case” waiting for ...
Oil seep hydrocarbons and oxygen-free mud protected not only bones but also delicate tissues such as skin and cartilage.
Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, ...
Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...