An extremely well-preserved dinosaur fossil is further fueling the debate about the evolution of flight among the “terrible ...

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 ...

A new analysis of exceptional fossil sites in China and Mongolia suggests the earliest animals could have evolved up to 200 ...

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Field photos of the Khugenetsavkhlant badlands in the Eastern Gobi Desert of Mongolia, which is where Tamirkhan balcarceli was ...

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

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.

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.

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

A small fossil from the windswept Gobi Desert is forcing scientists to rethink a long chapter in the story of mammal evolution. For decades, researchers believed a group of ancient mammals called ...