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

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

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

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

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

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

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

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 ...

The recreated skull's features suggest that the fossil belonged to the same lineage as a striking specimen called "Dragon Man ...