A new study combining genomic analyses and fossil evidence sheds light on the century-old "Palaeoptera Problem," a ...

Anacondas have been among the largest snakes for millions of years, according to fossil evidence from South America. A ...

Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long before forests reached skyward, animals walked on land and dinosaurs rose and fell, our planet was shaped by a much ...

Ediacaran sea floor, Namibia, Southwest Africa – 543 million years ago. Credit: Museum of Natural History, University of ...

A fossil from China suggests some early birds were adapted to life on the ground, challenging assumptions about bird ...

The partial skull of a tiger-sized predator was discovered about a century ago and acquired by the Natural History Museum in ...

A landmark Nature study combining 103 bat genomes with 44 fossils indicates that bats most likely originated in Europe during ...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

A landmark Bat1K study published in Nature combines genomes and fossils to show bats likely originated in Europe about 65 ...

A famous Scottish fossil is forcing scientists to rethink what claw-like feet really reveal about the move onto land.

A 165-million-year-old fossil contains clues to the mouth and throat structures that help modern mammals drink milk. The ...