New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

Scientists in Scotland uncover a new form of life from 410 million years ago, challenging long-held beliefs about early Earth ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical evidence suggested.

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about these ancient rulers of the skies. In a study published in the ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in Brunei, scientists have found two-million-year-old fossils of Dryobalanops rappa—an endangered tropical tree that still lives today. The find marks the first fossil ...

This video explores five extinct predators that lived alongside early humans and their ancestors. Fossil evidence, bite marks ...

A revisit to a pterosaur-abundant fossil site uncovered how two baby pterosaurs met an unusually chilling death 150 million years ago. Reading time 3 minutes The Solnhofen Limestone, a fossil hotspot ...

The world's largest-known dinosaur mating display area may have been found hiding in plain site at Colorado's Dinosaur Ridge site. Once a tidal flat, this region would have been periodically flooded ...