Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

During the course of evolution, the mammalian cranio-mandibular secondary joint—formed by the dentary condyle and the ...

A University of Michigan researcher has discovered an early innovation in the way fish eat. A scientist from the University ...

If you’ve always thought echidnas and platypuses were distant cousins who went their separate ways on land and water, think ...

Experts say the lizard-like creature, which has been given the Gaelic name Breugnathair elgolensis, had lived about 167 ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of ...

Researchers discovered a 520-million-year-old fossil of an arthropod named Youti yuanshi that still had its brain and guts ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

Lead author Dr Roger Benson says the fossil may show that snake ancestors were very different to what we expected ...

A fingertip-sized fossil uncovered in Montana revealed a tiny crocodile species. This unexpected find reshaped croc evolution ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...