New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

Studies looking at how sponges have evolved on a molecular level have suggested that spicules should be present over 700 ...

The missing link in the mystery turned out to be an event called the Cambrian explosion. It was only after it that living ...

What does it take for soft-bodied animals, built to rot not to rock, to persist for 500 million years in the Grand Canyon? The usual answer in paleontology is simple: take away oxygen, slow decay, and ...

Rare fossils found along the Colorado River 'give us a fuller picture of what life was like during the Cambrian period,' says an expert.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...