The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

New research has uncovered a shocking truth, Europe once hosted a variety of horned dinosaurs, previously unknown.

Under the threat of climate change and geopolitical tensions related to fossil fuels, the world faces an urgent need to find ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Crocodiles and alligators are usually the apex predators in whatever environment they live in. Their massive jaws and armored ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

A nearly-complete adult jawbone, a partial adult jawbone, the jawbone of a child, a vertebrae and some teeth were discovered.

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.