An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

Killifish, or egg-laying toothcarps, are known for their ecological adaptability and species diversity. Two families of ...

A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how ...

A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early ...

Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A ...

The discovery of Ahvaytum bahndooiveche, a 230-million-year-old dinosaur in Wyoming, reveals dinosaurs existed in the ...

Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million ...

Dinosaurs inhabited the Northern Hemisphere millions of years earlier than scientists previously thought, according to the ...

Researchers have discovered a prehistoric ‘demon-toothed’ fish in Socorro County, New Mexico. The fish, which lived over 300 ...

Now, new evidence found in South Africa ... Granger says the caves in South Africa where Mrs. Ples was discovered hold more Australopithecus fossils than anywhere in the world.

An analysis of the fossil remains — discovered in 2013 in Wyoming and ... researchers said. The new findings are evidence that dinosaurs spread to the Northern Hemisphere quicker than previously ...