Scientists in Canada have uncovered 567-million-year-old fossils that may rewrite the story of early animal evolution.

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

A draft global stocktake from the COP28 international climate summit falls short of what environmental advocates have hoped for, listing possible options for an international phase-out of fossil fuels ...

For decades, many paleontologists thought they had the Ediacaran fossil record sorted. The oldest “Avalon” fossils showed up first, then came the richer “White Sea” communities, and finally a simpler ...

Bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation: A timeline built from genomic, fossil, and chemical data. Colors show oxygen states: anaerobic (blue), aerobic (red), and proportion of aerobic lineages in ...