Protein remnants in fossil enamel reveal new ways to study evolution. These molecules stretch our view of molecular ...

Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger ...

This marks the first-ever generation of DNA barcodes for the elusive species, placing it within a clearer taxonomic framework ...

Oregon is a land of contrast. There are shimmering lakes, towering mountain peaks, the long-distance Oregon Trail, and the rugged Pacific coastline. All these are painted on the state's landscape, ...

Evolution is an incredible process that has filled our world with a richly diverse set of species. In this sense, it is a ...

One day in the Middle Miocene, some 11 million to 16 million years ago, a roughly 4.8-metre-long caiman ate a terror bird 1.

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

Neanderthals in two nearby caves used different techniques when butchering animal carcasses in what is now Israel, according ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...