About 309 million years ago, before dinosaurs appeared, a squat amphibian-like animal lived in the swamps and river channels ...

Researchers have identified a new long-clawed dinosaur species with "unique features" from a fossil skeleton found in China.

New dinosaur species China 2026: Kayrasaurus changliensis, the largest therizinosaur from the Jehol Biota, sets an all-time ...

Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda, a newly identified plant-eating relative of mammals from Tanzania, may change the age assigned ...

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New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

A newly identified 240-million-year-old animal from Tanzania is forcing scientists to rethink the early dinosaur timeline. Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda belongs to a group previously known only from ...

Rocks that fell from a cliff and split open in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic revealed a fern-shaped creature that ...

Iguanodontians are a diverse group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous and had a worldwide distribution. Intercontinental dispersal events between Asia, ...

In a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, a tiny human relative once lived alongside dwarf elephants, giant rats, and Komodo dragons. Then, after thousands of years, that world began to dry out, ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be folded into the genus Homo because new fossils have blurred many of the traits ...

We’ve all seen some version of the classic evolutionary diagram. A fish crawls out of a primordial swamp, sprouts legs, transforms into something resembling a modern salamander or frog, and eventually ...