This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known ...

Researchers have combined decades of scientific data, tracing how all birds are related. This provides an evolutionary map ...

The mystery of life’s beginnings has long captivated scientists. Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of tree frog – one that once hopped and croaked around an ancient lake near ...

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back by 35 million years. The team’s conclusions also mean that the split ...

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...