The earliest animals may have evolved hundreds of millions of years before their first unmistakable fossils appear in the ...

Unlike most modern mammals, which get just two sets of teeth in their lifetime, an ancient species from the Cretaceous, found ...

Archaeologists identified hominin fossils in South Africa, including a 2-million-year-old adult Homo erectus fossil.

A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.

A newly described feathered dinosaur found in northeastern China adds evidence supporting the theory that flight-related ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has created the largest combined study of bat genomes and fossils ever ...

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.

Scientists thought Lizzie was an early reptile for more than 30 years. But advanced X-ray scans of the 345-million-year-old ...

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada’s Northwest Territories, offering unprecedented insight into the earliest evolution of complex animal life on Earth.

Hidden anatomy inside a crushed Scottish fossil overturns decades of thinking about when reptile-like adaptations first ...

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.