Recent fossil analysis is reshaping our understanding of Neanderthal origins, questioning long-held assumptions about their ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

Damage on the surface of the recent fossil finds confirm this theory, as they show evidence of tooth marks and chewing damage ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

A tiny Siberian fish fossil that’s a whopping 415 million years old may be part of a group of fish that was ancestor to all the jawed vertebrates living today. Described online in the journal ...

The early part of the twentieth century saw evolutionary theory embattled by disagreements ... other paleontologists were convinced that the fossil record could best be explained by directed ...

However, the fossil found, which would be a 555-million ... as it places ecdysozoans in the Precambrian, supporting the theory that this lineage predates the Cambrian explosion," Hughes explained.

When fossil remains were found that were unlike ... Much of Cuvier's research produced knowledge that would ultimately support Darwin's theory of evolution, although Cuvier himself did not realize ...