The microbialite record can tell us a great deal about life on Earth. It gives us clues about where some of the earliest life ...

A 518-million-year-old ambulacrarian fossil from China suggests that the common ancestor of starfish and their relatives was ...

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

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

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

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago?

Animals may have evolved up to 200 million years earlier than fossil evidence suggests, according to new research. The Oxford University-led study challenges key assumptions scientists have used to ...

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

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

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

The evidence exists in so-called magnetofossils found in marine sediments that have been dated to 97 million years old.