A predecessor of modern mammals that lived in the Jurassic has been found in China with its throat anatomy preserved, ...

The fossil belonged to a category of dinosaurs called microraptors, which were bird-like but not ancestors of modern-day ...

Scientists have found the earliest-known fossil of a mammal-like animal that lived more than 160 million years ago in the mid ...

Unlike most modern mammals, which get just two sets of teeth in their lifetime, an ancient species from the Cretaceous, found ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

Paleontologists suggested that zhelestids represented an unknown group of hoofed mammals—now known to be rather far from the ...

A newly discovered pterosaur fossil is shedding light on the evolutionary journey of these ancient flying reptiles. This complete specimen, named Skiphosoura bavarica, provides crucial insights into ...

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A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.

Timing is crucial when it comes to understanding the origins of humanity. Developing better dating techniques to discover the ages of key fossils will help scientists to discover how Homo sapiens and ...

A delicate, innocuous little fossil from the reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is forcing a rethink about the evolution of skin and its appendages such as feathers ...