A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

The conodont Wurmiella excavata was said to have had razor-sharp structures that processed prey from left to right, rather ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

"Animals, plants, seaweed, and foraminifera are all eukaryotes. We were interested in studying this foraminifera because it thrives in a very similar environment to Earth during the Precambrian, a ...

A 2024 study posits that a mysterious animal found in San rock art is actually a reconstruction of a dicynodont.

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...