Uncover 25 ancient human discoveries that challenge our understanding of early man. See how new fossils and DNA finds are ...

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

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

A new study on a 324-million-year-old fossil suggests that insects did not make a sudden jump from water to land.

For decades, a handful of small, rounded teeth carried more evolutionary weight than the rest of the animal ever could. A ...

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

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

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

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

Little is known about the sounds of the natural environment that dinosaurs inhabited millions of years ago in Jurassic ...

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 ...

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