About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the ...

Long before birds fluttered their wings and took their maiden flight, it was pterosaurs - the distant cousins of birds - that ...

The pterosaurs or flying reptiles. SNSB scientists have now identified a new species that shows that the origin of the most ...

Ancient DNA research suggests that our non-African ancestors mixed with Neandertals about 50,000 years ago, resulting in one ...

When you arrive at the Natural History Museum by Tube and walk from the underground station through the South Kensington subway, you’ll emerge into our new Evolution Garden. Your journey will begin in ...

Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, appearing in the fossil record before trees even existed. But what did they evolve from, are they 'living fossils', and how did they survive ...

We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have, however, become probably the most powerful ...

For most of the past two centuries, scientists were aware of two major groups on the pterosaur evolutionary timeline. On the oldest end, there were the non-pterodactyloids, which had a short head ...

The research utilized a Bayesian tip-dating analysis incorporating the fossilized birth-death process to estimate evolutionary relationships and timelines. This method enabled the time calibration ...

Artificial intelligence as a disruptive technology has "shrunk the timeline" of evolution of photonics technology ...

The research utilized a Bayesian tip-dating analysis incorporating the fossilized birth-death process to estimate ...