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

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

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

The fossil record has historically included few fish for about 10 million years after the mass extinction event 65 million ...

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

Researchers have recently discovered a new Jurassic bird fossil that overturns a long-held assumption about how the avian tail evolved, according to findings published online in the journal Science ...

A research team at Yunnan University has resolved a longstanding mystery regarding Earth’s earliest vertebrates, revealing ...

Life reconstruction of the Jurassic bird Zhengheornis buyu from the Zhenghe Fauna in Fujian province. [Photo provided to ...

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

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

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

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by palaeontologists at the University ...