Mystery Fossil Challenges What We Know About Early Land Life, A Major Rewrite for Evolutionary History ...

Newly discovered fossils, belonging to the mammal-precursor species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis, offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and middle ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the “Sword Dragon of Dorset,” the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with weird new forms. Frustratingly, fossils from later in the Cambrian period are ...

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 160-million-year-old Anchiornis fossils. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Research on the Anchiornis specimen reveals hidden ...

The discovery of new cynodont fossils from southern Brazil by a team of palaeontologists has led to a significant breakthrough in understanding the evolution of mammals. These fossils, belonging to ...

Chapter 1. The fossil record of parasitism: Its extent and taphonomic constraints -- Chapter 2. Importance of data on fossil symbioses for parasite-host evolution -- Chapter 3. Biodiversity and ...

Beginning with a recently discovered 47-million-year-old primate fossil, Switek effectively and eloquently demonstrates the exponential increase in fossils that have been found since Darwin first ...