Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils ...

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

For over half a billion years, evolution has ... the importance of the fossil record in understanding evolutionary processes.

The evolution of the blowhole, for example, might have started with ... Despite the wealth of evidence from the fossil record, genetics and other fields of science, some people still question ...

A Chicago fossil of Archaeopteryx uncovers unknown features, supporting theories of bird evolution from dinosaurs and ...

Bacteria were the first organisms to photosynthesize, creating the oxygen essential for the evolution ... fossil evidence of photosynthesis. “This discovery extends the fossil record of such ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

They will sort the fossils into orders (closely related groups) by observing characteristics and comparing them to see how trilobites changed over time. This is a good activity to start exploring the ...