A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

Scientists believe they have uncovered the 'missing link' in human evolution, showing how our species may have evolved.

A new study in Nature led by scientists at New York University reports that fossil bones as old as 3 million years still ...

Today, rock wallabies are seen as secretive cliff-dwellers that rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

The first thing visitors see when they enter the newly opened Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi are four massive ...

Paleontologists Susannah Maidment and Chinzorig Tsogtbaatar share details about some of the cool dinosaurs discovered last ...

A fossil of Manipulonyx reshetovi, found in a Mongolian desert, shows how the dinosaur used its specialized claw to snatch ...

A mass extinction created the ecological conditions that set the stage for a dramatic shift in marine life.

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...