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 ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African ...

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved.

“This is one of the oldest known four-legged animals to eat its veggies,” said Arjan Mann of the Field Museum in Chicago, a co-lead author of the study. “It shows that experimentation with herbivory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Find the fossil sites' interactive display, Maropeng exhibition, Cradle of Humankind. flowcomm, CC BY South Africa has one of the ...

Scientists have said fossils of a small newly discovered dinosaur found in Spain could change ideas on the evolution of ...

Ancient lungfish fossils show how early fish evolved features that eventually allowed animals to leave the water and adapt to life on land.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

India's rich fossil heritage reveals ancient life, from dinosaur nesting grounds in Gujarat to marine fossils in the ...

Learn how tiny fossils from Spain led to the discovery of Foskeia and a new chapter in dinosaur evolution.