Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

The golden poison dart frog may be tiny, but it has earned a formidable reputation in the animal kingdom. Native to a small ...

Animal populations have fallen by 73% in some species over the past 50 years. Are we on a fast track to widespread species ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey are bringing The Greatest Show on Earth to the Twin Cities for the first time in more than ...

Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a strange, diverse ...

Scientists in England have discovered a strange 215-million-year-old “greyhound crocodile” named Galahadosuchus jonesi.

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...