A tiny fossil discovered exactly a century ago has caused an enormous change in our understanding of when flying insects ...

A new study combining genomic analyses and fossil evidence sheds light on the century-old "Palaeoptera Problem," a longstanding debate over the evolutionary relationships among major groups of winged ...

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

An integrated fossil, occurrence and mitochondrial analysis places the origin of Marmota in North America and links its ...

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 ...

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the ...

The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of the ...

A model using new fossil evidence and biomechanical studies in a modern fish suggests the earliest land animals may have had ...

Evidence for evolution lesson for AQA GCSE Biology: how fossils form, the fossil record, resistant bacteria data, worksheets and full answers. This is a complete lesson on the evidence for evolution ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, paleoanthropology and its related fields ...