Paleontologists have discovered fossils of Heleocola piceanus, a swamp-dwelling mammal that lived around 75 million years ago ...

Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki is one of the oldest known toothed whales with advanced auditory capabilities. The anatomical ...

In the ocean’s abyss, deep-diving whales use echolocation to hunt in pitch dark ... these animals can “learn their way out of this” or whether “they’re bound by their evolution to sort of fall into ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

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

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

A team of researchers led by SNSB paleontologist Gertrud Rößner has discovered a new prehistoric dolphin species. Analyses of ...

It was too big for a seal and too small and oddly shaped for a whale, NOAA Fisheries noted. Duquette sought the expertise of ...

Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about ...

A team of scientists has found that the sinuses of the prehistoric ancestors of crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales ...

A recent study by Harvard reveals that the evolutionary transition to an upright posture in mammals was complex and occurred ...