On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including ...

This semi-aquatic mammal may look improbable, but its biology reveals how evolution shapes even the strangest mammal bodies.

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature. The original story “ 289-million-year-old mummified reptile ...

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus ...

A fossil found in northern Egypt is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about our origins. Named __Masripithecus ...