Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a ...

A new study reveals how squid and cuttlefish began in the deep sea and survived Earth’s biggest extinction to thrive ...

An odd crocodile relative, Sonselasuchus cedrus, walked on four legs as a baby and two as an adult - a huge transformation ...

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

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(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...