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 ...

Learn more about Herugavialis cairensis, an extinct crocodile species whose fossil came from the same rocks as the Great ...

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

Microfossils from Mongolia suggest the first animals may be up to 200 million years older than their oldest clear fossils, a new study finds.

The first Paranthropus fossil identified in Ethiopia’s Afar region challenges assumptions about this ancient hominin’s geographic limits.

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

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

Animals may have evolved up to 200 million years earlier than their first appearance in the fossil record, according to a new study led by the ...

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

The fossil belonged to a category of dinosaurs called microraptors, which were bird-like but not ancestors of modern-day ...

Yujingia lived during the Cambrian explosion, when most major animal groups first appeared in the fossil record. Much of the ...

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