Revealed by a German fossil, the newly described species sheds ... an international team of experts reveals how Skiphosoura fills an important gap in pterosaur evolution that paleontologists ...

The origin of mammals is shrouded in mystery, but every fossil clue helps rewrite the story. A new discovery on a ...

Modern humans first appeared only 200,000 years ago. Vocativ created this graphic showing how the fossil has changed what we know about the timeline of the origin of humankind: ...

The fossil filled a 70-million-year gap in the understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird-like dinosaur, and birds ...

In a discovery rewriting the evolutionary playbook, scientists have unearthed a 161-million-year-old tadpole fossil in Argentina ... that would rewrite the timeline of amphibian evolution.

(Credit: Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki) Coprolite from Smok: Fossil faeces of the bone-crushing archosaur Smok ... This glimpse into these early dinosaurs' diets and ecosystems can help fill an evolutionary ...

A fossil unearthed from Triassic-era rocks near ... dramatically shifts the timeline of lizard evolution, pushing the origins of modern lizards back by 35 million years. Initially, the findings ...

Plans by governments to extract fossil fuels up to 2030 are incompatible with keeping global temperatures to safe levels, says the UN. The UNEP production gap report says countries will drill or ...

Scientists have unearthed a well-preserved fossil skeleton of this newly identified species, named Skiphosoura bavarica, in a discovery that fills a major gap in the understanding of the evolution ...