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

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

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

Analysis of feathers trapped in amber sheds new light on evolutionary path that led to early birds’ ability to fly.

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

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly ...

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

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

For generations, the story of human origins has been a complex tapestry, pieced together from fossil records and genetic ...