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 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 ...

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 ...

When people think of fossils, many may imagine old stones lined up in museums, like dinosaur bones or ammonites.However, the ...

Explore five South African places where ancient rocks, meteorite impacts, dinosaurs, fossils and human evolution reveal millions of years of history.

A newly discovered four-winged dinosaur from China suggests that dinosaur wings evolved twice independently in different ...

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which ...

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