The C. praecursor specimens were found inside calcareous claystone concretions in the Tesnus Formation of the Marathon Uplift ...

A fossil misidentified for decades reveals insects before six legs became standard. For nearly 40 years, one of the strangest ...

Smithsonian researcher Klara Widrig studies living birds to build 3D models of their ancestors’ anatomies, uncovering how ...

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried ...

Most living mammals are small. Because smaller animals were less likely to survive the researchers’ simulated preservation ...

A many-legged oddball from long ago helps fill a major gap in the fossil record — and hints at how insects ended up with just ...

Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some ...

By now, most of us have some knowledge that life on land involved transitioning from the water and evolving the physiological ...

The formation of complex terrestrial ecosystems was a significant innovation in the evolutionary history of life on Earth.

Bite marks on fossil bones suggest giant crocodylians were major predators in Miocene South America. The marks point ...

(ECNS) -- An international research team led by the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has analyzed a 324-million-year-old insect fossil, filling a ...

NANJING — An international team led by Chinese researchers has uncovered an early insect species dating back roughly 324 ...