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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the Jiangchuan biota, an assemblage of early animals represented by fossils from a newly discovered fossil ...

Long before dinosaurs dominated the land, Earth was shaped by unfamiliar seas, shifting continents, and experimental forms of ...

A small fossil snake may hold outsized clues about snake evolution, behavior, and an ancient ecosystem that looked nothing ...

A reconstruction of the Jiangchuan biota, an assemblage of early animals represented by fossils from a newly discovered fossil site in China?s Yunnan Province dating to about 554 to 539 million years ...

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 ...