A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of ...

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the ...

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing the origins of bony fish — a key group in this evolution — remains ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of ...

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.