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 ...

"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 ...

The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...

Gulf Coast Humane Society hosts monthly 'Read and Rollover' event for kids and shelter animals to connect through reading.

In fact, animals wouldn’t make their debut for another 3.2 billion years. It was only during the late Precambrian period that animals began to show up in the fossil record.

Do nonhuman animals live in a kind of eternal present, or are they aware of the passage of time? That question has been debated by scientists for decades. Most experts agree that animals have some way ...

Discover Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old worm-like fossil, offering the first Precambrian evidence of Ecdysozoa origins.