Our ancient four-legged ancestors didn't have an amphibian-like life cycle when they began walking on land, according to a ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...

An international study of infant remains from 50,000–75,000 years ago has provided new evidence about the developmental ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence from one of Earth's most extreme ancient warming events, revealing how the climate may ...

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval ...

New dating of volcanic ash layers at the Omo Kibish site in Ethiopia suggests that the Homo sapiens fossils found there are ...

Fern-like bodies once covered the seafloor, some stretching as tall as a person. Yet for millions of years, the animal world ...

A newly recognized "king" of the ancient seas is making waves after scientists revisited old fossils and realized they ...

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than ...