Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by palaeontologists at the University ...

An analysis of fossil teeth from mammals that lived in China following the most recent major mass extinction suggests size came before both shape and function as diets diversified.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The evolution of some of the earliest complex animals on our planet may ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

A few teeth found in an outback fossil deposit have helped connect a 30-million-year blind spot in Australia's evolutionary ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like ...