One hundred years ago, a paper was published in the journal Nature that would radically shift our understandings of the origins of humanity. It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in ...

Learn more about how a recent fossil discovery has added a new species to the list of prehistoric humans who walked on two ...

A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it ...

Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.

Adult insects are known for their fascinating and complex eyes, which allow them to accomplish remarkable sensory feats when ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.

Before Darwin’s theory became central to evolutionary biology, it still had gaps that were left to be filled—until a certain ...

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

The ability of our skeletons to move with both flexibility and stability can be traced back to ancient jawed fish. Scientists ...

These fossils offer new insights into Victoria’s ancient ecosystem, which was dominated by large powerful megaraptorids (6–7 ...