New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

A collection of fossil teeth from southern China is shedding new light on one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s ...

How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of evolution. Around 540 million years ago, a sudden, astonishing ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

Scientists have long believed that the earliest aquatic animals to move onto land passed through a tadpole-like stage, ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Alaska are changing how scientists view mammal life and migration in the ancient Arctic.

A 150-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Fujian province has revealed what researchers say is the smallest known ...

Researchers have described a new Jurassic bird species, Zhengheornis buyu, discovered in Fujian Province, China. The ...

For decades, one puzzle stood out among the many mysteries of early animal evolution: the missing origin story of bryozoans.