Scientists dated a Scottish fossil, Westlothiana, to 346 million years ago, revealing its role in early land animal evolution ...

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the ...

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

Fossil tracks from Australia reveal reptiles appeared 40 million years earlier than thought. The origin of reptiles on Earth ...

Sixty-three percent. That is the mind-boggling ratio of mammal species that disappeared from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

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 ...

This may have sparked the evolution of a thicker layer of skin to increase ... cellular, morphological, fossil human skeletal and extant non-human primate data," the researchers wrote.

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 ...

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 ...

It is also a pattern of evolution seen in the fossil record of North American primates, who went extinct about 34 million years ago. “Several million years later Ekgmowechashala shows up like a ...