Researchers may have uncovered the reason why some of Earth's earliest animals were commonly preserved as fossils—even though ...

Ediacaran sea floor, Namibia, Southwest Africa – 543 million years ago. Credit: Museum of Natural History, University of ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new Jurassic bird fossil - a discovery that challenges the conventional notion that the ...

A newly described 150-million-year-old bird from China, Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis, shows that some of the earliest birds lost ...

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By Will Dunham Oct 14 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered the fossil of a crow-sized bird that lived in China roughly 150 ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists' understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

The fossil record is biased. Because soft tissues like organs are very rarely preserved, paleontologists are left to piece together extinct life from the hard stuff (bones, shells, exoskeletons, ...

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An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

Newly discovered fossils, belonging to the mammal-precursor species Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis, offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and middle ...

Newswise — The discovery of new fossils and a new species of ancient ancestor may help shift the perception of human evolution from linear evolution to that of a tree with many branches, new UNLV ...