Insects belong to a broader group of six-legged animals called hexapods. This group also includes other less well-known, ...

A small fossil from the windswept Gobi Desert is forcing scientists to rethink a long chapter in the story of mammal evolution. For decades, researchers believed a group of ancient mammals called ...

A new study combining genomic analyses and fossil evidence sheds light on the century-old "Palaeoptera Problem," a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Emily Mitchell at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada. Her research suggests clone-based reproduction kept early animals ...

Scientists thought Lizzie was an early reptile for more than 30 years. But advanced X-ray scans of the 345-million-year-old fossil revealed hidden gills, a primitive skull and an entirely different ...

Ediacaran sea floor, Namibia, Southwest Africa – 543 million years ago. Credit: Museum of Natural History, University of ...

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life ...

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Field photos of the Khugenetsavkhlant badlands in the Eastern Gobi Desert of Mongolia, which is where Tamirkhan balcarceli was ...