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 ...

A dinosaur fossil that sat unnoticed in a museum collection for nearly a century has turned out to belong to a previously ...

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 ...

Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long before forests reached skyward, animals ...

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

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

A 120-million-year-old fossil forgotten in a museum for nearly a century has revealed a terrifying new dinosaur that may have ...

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

Where did it start? How did it grow complex? Why did it get big? Three moments in Earth’s early history when evolution ...

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