Scientists have uncovered a 377-million-year-old tree fossil in southwest England that shows early trees once grew on ...

Jurassic lizard footprints found in Spain provide rare trackways and insight into reptile motion 152 million years ago.

In a groundbreaking discovery in Brunei, scientists have found two-million-year-old fossils of Dryobalanops rappa—an endangered tropical tree that still lives today. The find marks the first fossil ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over a significant gap in the fossil record of Earth's earliest animals, with genetic evidence suggesting their rise more than 650 million years ago but no ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. This evidence has proven highly controversial, as it predates the fossil record of sponges by a minimum of 100 million years. Now an ...

Coelacanths, often termed “living fossils”, represent an extraordinary lineage of lobe‐finned fishes with a fossil record spanning from the Devonian to the present. Their evolutionary history is ...

Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs in ...

Dr Aaron Camens, Professor John Long and Dr Alice Clement with a replica of the fossil trackways at Flinders University's Palaeontology Lab. The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to ...

The fossil record of baleen whales (Mysticeti) offers a window into one of the most dramatic evolutionary transitions among mammals. Early cetaceans evolved from terrestrial artiodactyl ancestors into ...

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