In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

In an exciting paleontological discovery, researchers have identified a massive prehistoric predator that far surpassed the ...

Beyond mere biological evolution, the story of our species is filled with cultural and technological revolutions that have ...

The pterosaur had a “very unusual short, but stiff and pointed tail,” researchers said, unique to the species. They named the ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

Marveling at fish that build, speeding wombats and other wonders of the animal world.

At the ends of your toes are an evolutionary artifact of humans’ primate history, hiding in plain sight. Instead of sharp, curved hooks or stomping hooves, we have flat scales of double-layered ...

A complete specimen reveals how pterosaurs evolved from early forms into the massive giants of later periods. The pterosaurs ...

Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of paleontologists prefer drumsticks. That part of the leg, they say, is where fibular reduction ...

Nearly every bone of the animal has been recovered, and unlike most pterosaur fossils, this specimen is preserved in three ...

"Imagine we have a family tree of proteins from various species ... This confirmed that the molecular traits enabling Sox ...