The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

We’ve all seen some version of the classic evolutionary diagram. A fish crawls out of a primordial swamp, sprouts legs, ...

A mummified fossil fish was forgotten in a university basement until a son's chance discovery brought it back to science.

A spectacular fossil fish discovered on a remote cliff in New Zealand nearly 30 years ago has finally revealed its full story ...

One fossil can shake up a scientist's entire theory, making them re-arrange the timeline they had for the origin of species.

A fossil found in what’s now northwestern China belonged to a microraptor, a gliding dinosaur that hunted ancient birds.

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than ...

Imagine you’re walking to work when you unwittingly make a massive contribution to science. That was the experience for a Southern California science teacher who discovered a never-before-seen whale ...

A cave on New Zealand’s North Island has revealed a fossil assemblage dating back more than one million years, exposing the ...