Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

A rare set of 160-million-year-old dinosaur fossils is reshaping scientists’ understanding of how flight evolved among ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

Ethiopian researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that fundamentally challenges our understanding of human evolution by uncovering fossil evidence of a previously unknown species that ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 ...

Beginning with a recently discovered 47-million-year-old primate fossil, Switek effectively and eloquently demonstrates the exponential increase in fossils that have been found since Darwin first ...

Coelacanths, often termed “living fossils”, represent an extraordinary lineage of lobe‐finned fishes with a fossil record spanning from the Devonian to the present. Their evolutionary history is ...