If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...