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Tiny Fossils Just Overturned What Scientists Thought They Knew About Life on Land ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants were minor players in Earth's forests until dinosaurs disappeared 66 million ...

We’ve all seen some version of the classic evolutionary diagram. A fish crawls out of a primordial swamp, sprouts legs, ...

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

Travel back in geologic time with our detailed coverage on dinosaurs, from fossil discoveries to new research illuminating ...