For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth’s primordial seas millions of years earlier than previously known, with an array of forms including ...

A newly discovered ape ancestor in Egypt suggests great apes may have evolved beyond East Africa, reshaping understanding of ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world’s oldest octopus, has now been ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with weird new forms. Frustratingly, fossils from later in the Cambrian period are ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Learn how a 300-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the oldest octopus was reidentified after hidden teeth were ...

Where Did Humans Really Come From: For decades, we’ve been taught that human life began in East Africa. But a groundbreaking ...

Tanyka amnicola is a newly identified ancient tetrapod known from unusual twisted jawbones adapted for grinding plants. This ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...