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

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

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

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

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

A tiny piece of amber from Myanmar has captured a defensive maneuver that lizards still use today: shedding part of their ...

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

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified a new bird species, Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis, from a 149-million-year-old ...

The sudden appearance of complex animals has led scientists to argue that animals must have a “hidden history”, a period in ...

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

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