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 ...

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

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

A 95-million-year-old crocodyliform fossil, affectionately nicknamed Elton, was discovered in Montana by student Harrison ...

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 ...

A rare Jurassic reptile known as Breugnathair elgolensis, was discovered on the Isle of Skye. This species has combining ...

A newly discovered fossil in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has revealed the oldest and most complete pachycephalosaur ever found, ...