Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth’s primordial seas millions of years earlier than previously known, with an array of forms including ...

A newly discovered ape ancestor in Egypt suggests great apes may have evolved beyond East Africa, reshaping understanding of ...

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 ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

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 ...

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

New fossils suggest early apes originated in Africa, strengthening evidence that all modern apes trace their roots to the ...

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

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived may influence our understanding of early human evolution. Much of the early human fossil record ...