Animals may have evolved up to 200 million years earlier than fossil evidence suggests, according to new research. The Oxford ...

A roughly 2. 6-million-year-old jaw provides the first identified Paranthropus fossil from Ethiopia’s Afar region.

New research from the University of Oxford suggests that animals may have existed up to 200 million years earlier than previously thought, challenging ...

Learn how new research challenges long-held assumptions about animal evolution and suggests that the earliest animals may ...

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

A fossil leaf buried for nearly 24 million years in Assam’s Makum Coalfield has revealed that a plant lineage now confined to the peat swamps of Southeast Asia once grew much farther west in the ...

A handful of unremarkable bone fragments from caves in southern Siberia have turned out to hold an extraordinary evolutionary ...

Wearing shoes seems to affect the density and volume of a spongy network within a bone in our ankles, which could affect the validity of previous research into the evolution of walking ...

Chemical signatures preserved in fossil teeth suggest that dinosaurs and other Cretaceous animals living near ancient ...

Global Bat1K research combines genomes and fossils to redraw the bat family tree, tracing the origins of flight, echolocation ...

Fossils recovered nearly a century ago from a limestone formation have now been identified as a previously unknown crocodile ...