This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Ancient England snake fossil Paradoxophidion helps explain how modern snakes evolved during warm humid Eocene period.

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

Dwelling around 167 million years ago, the chimeric reptile was discovered along with 70 other prehistoric species.

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with remarkable capabilities to process information, coordinate movements, and respond ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a fossilized ...

The evolution of some of the earliest complex animals on our planet may have been spurred on by other, simpler early animals. These simple marine animals first evolved around 560 million years ago and ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

To clarify the early evolutionary history of Cicadoidea fossils, the phylogenetic relationships between Mesozoic fossils and extant Cicadoidea, the macroevolution of body structure adaptations, and ...

A Canadian teacher out for a walk stumbled upon a rare fossil that appears to date back to before dinosaurs walked the Earth. Lisa Cormier, a teacher on Prince Edward Island, was walking in Cape ...