Litoria tylerantiqua, a 55-million-year-old fossil, is Australia’s oldest known tree frog. It shifts the timeline for frog ...

A team of paleontologists affiliated with several institutions in Argentina, working with a colleague from the U.K., has ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

A tiny treasure buried in 236-million-year-old poop. It might not be as glamorous as a bug in amber, but this dung fossil, ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.

The Little Dal reef is mostly "just a streaky set of laminated things ... that were previously identified as evidence of ancient sponges extracted from 635-million-year-old sediments in Oman.

These tracks were made by clawed feet—a characteristic of amniotes. Their appearance pushes back amniotes evolution by 35-40 million years ... Experts Found a 600-Year-Old Depiction of a ...

offering rare insight into unexpected cultural connections in the region some 1,500 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced. The statuettes were discovered in 2017 during an excavation ...

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A 2,300-year-old ring has ... team who found the ring initially thought it was a modern piece of jewelry that had been dropped by someone working on the dig. Both rings were unearthed in the ...

The research team found them in ancient ... Lusitanian Basin and were once part of a shallow sea where rivers carried pollen and plant material more than 100 million years ago.