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

“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.

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

Sea fossils found on some of the world's tallest mountains are reigniting fierce debate over whether the biblical story of ...

Scientists announced on March 5, 2026, that they have identified an entirely new genus of mammal called Tous, a group of ...

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

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

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 ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossil of a new scorpion species, Jeholia longchengi, in China’s famous Yixian Formation.

Two marsupials thought extinct for over 7,000 years were rediscovered in New Guinea through fossils, photos and citizen science.

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

A newly discovered collection of 400-million-year-old bony fish fossils is rewriting the history of vertebrate evolution.