By Will Dunham Oct 14 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered the fossil of a crow-sized bird that lived in China roughly 150 ...

For early birds, evolution wasn't always about becoming better flyers. This conclusion is supported by the recent discovery ...

Today, Mazon Creek is home to one of the world’s finest fossil sites, with fossils preserving soft tissues and fine details ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists' understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

A newly unearthed Jurassic fossil from east China is prompting scientists to rethink one of the most basic assumptions about bird evolution: that early birds always evolved toward better flight ...

The sudden appearance of complex animals has led scientists to argue that animals must have a “hidden history”, a period in ...

To clarify the early evolutionary history of Cicadoidea fossils, the phylogenetic relationships between Mesozoic fossils and extant Cicadoidea, the macroevolution of body structure adaptations, and ...

The fossil belonged to a category of dinosaurs called microraptors, which were bird-like but not ancestors of modern-day ...

A predecessor of modern mammals that lived in the Jurassic has been found in China with its throat anatomy preserved, ...

A delicate, innocuous little fossil from the reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is forcing a rethink about the evolution of skin and its appendages such as feathers ...

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