Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

An extraordinary rhino fossil found in the Arctic is reshaping everything we know about prehistoric life and evolution.

A newly discovered collection of 400-million-year-old bony fish fossils is rewriting the history of vertebrate evolution.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

Learn how newly discovered Purgatorius fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin are filling gaps in the Paleocene fossil record and ...

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

For more than a century, the human appendix has been written off as a biological relic, a shrunken leftover from plant-eating ancestors that serves no real purpose. That view is now outdated. A ...

Ireland’s biopharmaceutical sector continues to thrive amid key financial incentives, proximity to key markets, and favorable regulatory frameworks.

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their environments, providing insights into the evolution of the distinct upright postures ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...