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

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

A few teeth found in an outback fossil deposit have helped connect a 30-million-year blind spot in Australia's evolutionary ...

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

How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the ...

Echinoderms, such as starfish, sea urchins and sea lilies, use small, flexible, tubular projections called "tube feet" for ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provides a novel model for understanding the development and evolution of ...

Imagine digging up a fossil that completely rewrites what scientists thought they knew about prehistoric life. Some dinosaur discoveries have done exactly that, revealing feathers on creatures we ...

Ancient Australian fossils indicate that the earliest eukaryotes depended on oxygen, providing new evidence that oxygen ...

University of California, Berkeley researchers studying fossils found in a museum collection are now helping to clarify how ...

Fern-like bodies once covered the seafloor, some stretching as tall as a person. Yet for millions of years, the animal world ...

Fossils and evolution / P.D. Gingerich -- Biological extinction in terms of overadaptation / T. Hamada -- Revolutions and colonizations in the history of life / B. Halstead -- The genomic tag model ...