Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the ...

Ancient fossilized babies of crocodile-like predators are rewriting evolutionary history. Previously, scientists believed ...

Fern-like bodies once covered the seafloor, some stretching as tall as a person. Yet for millions of years, the animal world ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The evolution of some of the earliest complex animals on our planet may ...

To clarify the early evolutionary history of Cicadoidea fossils, the phylogenetic relationships between Mesozoic fossils and extant Cicadoidea, the macroevolution of body structure adaptations, and ...

Scientists have long believed that the earliest aquatic animals to move onto land passed through a tadpole-like stage, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like ...

Analysis of a jawbone in the Hualongdong cave in eastern China dated at 300,000 years old has shown an intriguing array of features both archaic and modern. The nearly complete mandible together with ...

Remarkable new fossil discoveries in New Zealand are driving a significant reassessment of our understanding of the early evolution of penguins. We know Antarctica was home to at least ten species, ...

Beginning with a recently discovered 47-million-year-old primate fossil, Switek effectively and eloquently demonstrates the exponential increase in fossils that have been found since Darwin first ...