New Mexico’s high desert plateaus have also yielded many dinosaur fossils, including various species of tyrannosaurus that roamed the land millions of years ago when it was a tropical rain forest.
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Modern brains are younger than originally thought, possibly developing as recently as 1.5 million years ago, according to a study published Thursday — after the earliest humans had already begun walking on two feet and had even started fanning out from Africa.
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The fossils of the Early Cretaceous scratch-digger species are the first of these predecessors to mammals to be found in the prehistoric ecosystem.
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An examination of the life cycle of the ancient, eel-like lamprey shows the evolutionary path of hatchlings diverged considerably from the modern adult vertebrates.
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Fossilized plant specimens found in volcanic ash in China helped researchers find a link between fern and seed plants in the prehistoric world.
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The speedy mandibles of Strumigenys ants developed repeatedly throughout the world, explaining how evolution creates new abilities to help a species survive.
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A new study suggests that a gene variant affecting skeletal muscle function may have protected humans against lower temperatures as they migrated from Africa to Europe more than 50,000 years ago.
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A new study reports that by changing just a single gene in the zebrafish genetic code, researchers showed they could begin the creation of an entirely new set of bones and joints.
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New evidence from scientists at the University of Chicago shows exactly how the tiktaalik roseae, one of the first semi-aquatic organisms, fed itself using a similar feeding mechanism to modern predatory fish, filling in another blank about early water-to-land evolution.
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A newly discovered dinosaur skull helped scientists understand the differences between species of Parasaurolophus — and may have finally revealed the purpose of the creature’s unique facial crest.
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The anti-aphrodisiac the male Heliconius melponene sprays the female butterfly with after mating smells like flowers.
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A giant meteor wiped out dinosaurs — and a good portion of life on Earth at the time. Yet crocodiles survived and continue to survive, relatively unchanged. Scientists think they know why.
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For 150 million years, pterosaurs reigned as the only creatures in the skies, their broad wings and elongated skulls creating a unique silhouette that has captured human imagination since their discovery in the 19th century.
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The evolutionary debate has been raging for 160 years.
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Turns out the truth is a combination of two theories with a bit of evolutionary help from early crustaceans.
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Scientists have unlocked the evolutionary secrets behind the wood warbler in an effort to understand why there are so many different species of the songbird, according to new research revealed Monday.
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The avian fossil, found in what is now Madagascar, offers insight into the evolution of the faces of modern birds.
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Two of Charles Darwin’s notebooks containing his pioneering ideas on evolution and his famous “Tree of Life” sketch are missing, believed stolen, the Cambridge University Library said on Tuesday.
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In a trio of studies released Wednesday, scientists revealed major breakthroughs in the research of animal genomes — their most detailed look at vertebrate evolution yet.
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After over a decade of research and hundreds of new fossils recovered from the hot mines of India, researchers say they have uncovered new details regarding the evolutionary history of Earth’s most famous hoofed animals.
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