Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

“Tanyka is from an ancient lineage that we didn’t know survived to this time, and it’s also just a really strange animal,” ...

Scientists in Patagonia unearthed the nearly complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, one of the world's tiniest ...

Scientists have described Tanyka amnicola, a newly identified species of prehistoric creature that lived 275 million years ...

"Nine jaws we've found have this twist, including the really well-preserved ones, so it's not a deformation." ...

Something unusual has slipped back into the dark, fast-moving waters of Sweden’s Göta River: a prehistoric “living ...

The war in the Middle East has roiled oil and gas markets. Under a severe scenario, one estimate says that crude could reach ...