A remarkable fossil forest reveals dinosaurs may have helped spread fruit-bearing plants tens of millions of years earlier ...

A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New ...

The new findings suggest preference towards the right in animals may date back much, much further than once though.

In the late 1990s in the Ajimu region of Japan's Oita Prefecture, researchers discovered three fossilized vertebrae belonging ...

A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a rhythmic pattern. In other words, the same amount of time passed between each ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the Jurassic Park movies, it’s that running a dinosaur theme park isn’t easy. It’s a constant balancing act of keeping your employees satisfied, making your park ...