Each of these ancient fossils, even if just a small part of a skeleton, represents an identifiable character in the story of humankind.

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

following Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. But that tiny beetle could be turning Darwin’s theory on its head. According ...

The Psittacosaurus dinosaur fossils discovered in the Yixian Formation stood out for their remarkable state of preservation.

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

Chinese researchers studied adult and larval Loricera specimens trapped in the Cretaceous in three amber fossils unearthed ...

Survival of the fittest’ is Darwin 101. But did you know that Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin that phrase? Let’s explore ...

The tiny, two-toed fossil footprints made by an unidentified dinosaur species some 100 million years ago and preserved in a ...

Brazilian Fossils Reveal Jaw-Dropping Discovery in Mammal Evolution Sep. 25 ... discovered in a cave in France support well-known theory of why the Neanderthals became extinct, researchers ...

adds further evidence to support this theory, describing an enigmatic fossil as the earliest animal showing a bilateral asymmetry. "As the oldest fossil animals, the Ediacara biota, can tell us a ...

Fossils tell us the world over about life on Earth before humans existed - they can help us understand what the climate was like, what creatures lived on the planet, and what caused significant ...