Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction on the East ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

The Nokian Tyres factory in Oradea produced its one-millionth tire on December 20, fulfilling the target set for the current ...

Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...