The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is ...

Why it's awesome: The hoatzin is often regarded as one of the world's strangest birds. Hatchlings are born with clawed wings ...

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

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

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

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

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

Scientists have long wondered whether evolution would follow the same path if history ... territorial challenge for hundreds of birds across five branches of the bird family tree: swallows, wood ...

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 ...

the researchers built a family tree of the genus and then used biogeographical analysis to trace its origin to about 56 million years ago in Asia. "The evolutionary history of the genus is quite ...

The team used the data to create an evolutionary tree for all of them ... and distance from alligators on the crocodilian family tree.