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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Much of the early human fossil record ... of human evolution and why scientists must take that bias into account when interpreting early human history. "Because the evidence of early human ...