By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but ...

Fossil suggests four-legged tetrapods transitioned from ocean to land 35 million years earlier than previously thought.

Researchers have combined decades of scientific data, tracing how all birds are related. This provides an evolutionary map ...

Giant viruses, like the ones found in Yellowstone's hot springs, have been turning up in many odd corners of the planet.

Scientists in Australia have unearthed the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like creature, pushing back the ...