A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

A rare stegosaurian skull discovery in Spain redefines dinosaur evolution and unveils a new group, Neostegosauria.

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Scientists used enamel proteins from 2-million-year-old teeth to find unexpected variation in Paranthropus robustus.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

A blue plaque will be installed at the former home of Louis Leakey in High Street, Foxton, Cambridgeshire. Dr Leakey established that the origins and evolution of mankind began in Africa, he advanced ...

According to Kaya, more precise age determinations of mammalian fossils provide new insights into primate evolution. “The research reinforces our understanding of how ecosystems and species ...

We have been researching the evolution of primate litter size – how many ... we use skeletal collections, both fossil and recently living. In addition to being an anthropologist, one of us ...

Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest ...

Genetic and molecular studies, along with fossil evidence, indicate the period from 40 to 25 million years ago was a critical phase for the evolution and spread of anthropoid primates. The early ...

Fossils previously found in Nebraska have been connected to fossils from China, revealing how one species of primate existed ... an important gap in the evolution of humans, after Clovis people ...

"This is the grand pattern of evolution that we see in the fossil record of North American primates. The first primates came to North America about 56 million years ago at the beginning of the ...