One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known ...

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

The ancient footprints from Australia were found on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne and show reptile-like feet ...

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

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

Comb jellies "could repurpose [their] genetic toolkit in different ways like a Swiss knife," said the researchers.

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

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back by 35 million years. The team’s conclusions also mean that the split ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal ... But the branch of the evolutionary tree that led to modern reptiles ...