Recent fossil analysis is reshaping our understanding of Neanderthal origins, questioning long-held assumptions about their ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.

The prevailing scientific theory about dinosaurs on Hațeg Island was that they ... with both immigration and local evolution at play. More fossils are waiting to be unearthed in Europe, which could ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously ...

A tiny Siberian fish fossil that’s a whopping 415 million years old may be part of a group of fish that was ancestor to all the jawed vertebrates living today. Described online in the journal ...

However, the fossil found, which would be a 555-million ... as it places ecdysozoans in the Precambrian, supporting the theory that this lineage predates the Cambrian explosion," Hughes explained.