Did you know whales evolved from a land-based animal into an ocean-going mammal? To explore the evidence, we need to look at the desert, which may seem strange when discussing whales. The ocean once ...

More than 514 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed Earth, sponge-like creatures called archaeocyathids were ...

Great apes began to diverge from other primates about 25 million years ago, according to eastern African fossil records.

Indonesian researchers have discovered a fossil of an Elephas, or prehistoric elephant, estimated to be 500,000 years old.