Researchers have found nearly every plant part they need to trace the prehistoric history of a 47 million-year-old "alien ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

It’s not causing panic! in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk discovery in Britain is a source of ...

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 ...