Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

The fossils were found in a cave with an underwater stream, where they were simply picked up from the streambed.

A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of what Prototaxites may have looked like 400 million years ago. - Matt Humpage Some 400 million years ago, ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Researchers in China achieved a milestone by directly dating a fossilized dinosaur egg at 85.9 million years old, marking a first in paleontology. Using carbonate uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating, ...

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant instead of gradually unfolding over deep time. A new idea about how ...

A chunky, squat creature that roamed Earth 307 million years ago is helping scientists understand how plant-eating animals first appeared on land. The newly described species is one of the earliest ...

A paleontological site discovered in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has yielded more than 700 fossil specimens ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have shifted over time. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly dated ...