Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the ...

Ancient fossilized babies of crocodile-like predators are rewriting evolutionary history. Previously, scientists believed ...

A few teeth found in an outback fossil deposit have helped connect a 30-million-year blind spot in Australia's evolutionary ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

University of California, Berkeley researchers studying fossils found in a museum collection are now helping to clarify how ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provides a novel model for understanding the development and evolution of ...

Fern-like bodies once covered the seafloor, some stretching as tall as a person. Yet for millions of years, the animal world ...

A tiny fossil of a sea creature that lived more than half a billion years ago sheds new light on the evolution of arthropods, the most species-rich and successful group of animals to inhabit Earth, ...

Fig. 2: Three-dimensionally preserved Lingulellotreta ergalievi (Koneva & Popov, 1983) from the upper Shuijingtuo Formation (Cambrian Series 2) in Hubei and Shaanxi provinces, South China. Fig. 4: ...

Fossils and evolution / P.D. Gingerich -- Biological extinction in terms of overadaptation / T. Hamada -- Revolutions and colonizations in the history of life / B. Halstead -- The genomic tag model ...