Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth ...

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Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, defied conventions by combining two different mineral-building methods.

A study published in Science on the evolution of molluscan forms and genomes offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex and diverse biology of mollusks, shedding light on how they have evolved over ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

Researchers in Alberta uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate freshwater ecosystems. The new species, Acronichthys maccognoi, shows early ...

The oldest-known articulated bony fish and an early example of teeth from a bony fish have been detected in a collection of fossils from China, dating back to the Silurian period (around 444 to 419 ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with weird new forms. About half a billion years ago, life on Earth really started ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire ...

Creepy collector she is not; Cooke's quest for canines, incisors, and molars is driven by a desire to better understand Earth's past. Give this intrepid paleontologist a fossilized tooth, and there's ...