Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Studies of tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California have found no clear evidence ... that evolution goes nowhere fast. The fossil record is usually too sparse to ...

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

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.

The sandstone slab was found by two amateur palaeontologists in Australia and carries well-preserved footprints of long-toed ...

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

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known set of reptile footprints. Craig A. Eury and John Eason, two amateur ...

A team of experts assert it’s the jawbone of an ancient mosasaur. Dissenters in Alberta say it’s too good to be true. Testing ...