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

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

Ancient Australian fossils indicate that the earliest eukaryotes depended on oxygen, providing new evidence that oxygen ...

Learn more about Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, a fossil-rich site that could help fill key gaps in marine evolution.

A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in early animal evolution. The discovery of a 500-million-year-old arthropod in ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown branch of the marsupial family tree, a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how Australia's unique mammals evolved. Published in ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...