A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

A rare set of 160-million-year-old dinosaur fossils is reshaping scientists’ understanding of how flight evolved among dinosaurs and birds, offering the first direct behavioral evidence that some ...

An Archaeopteryx fossil with soft tissue reveals flight features and offers fresh support for Darwin’s theory of evolution.

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean floor teemed with small shelled creatures trying to stay alive as newly evolved ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

(CNN) — Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a ...

Coelacanths, often termed “living fossils”, represent an extraordinary lineage of lobe‐finned fishes with a fossil record spanning from the Devonian to the present. Their evolutionary history is ...

The oldest-known articulated bony fish and an early example of teeth from a bony fish have been detected in a collection of fossils from China, dating back to the Silurian period (around 444 to 419 ...

Beginning with a recently discovered 47-million-year-old primate fossil, Switek effectively and eloquently demonstrates the exponential increase in fossils that have been found since Darwin first ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction – and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, ‘groundbreaking’ new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...