The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by palaeontologists at the University ...

How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the ...

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known as ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Ancient fossilized babies of crocodile-like predators are rewriting evolutionary history. Previously, scientists believed ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The evolution of some of the earliest complex animals on our planet may ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

Scientists have long believed that the earliest aquatic animals to move onto land passed through a tadpole-like stage, ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

A few teeth found in an outback fossil deposit have helped connect a 30-million-year blind spot in Australia's evolutionary ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...