Fossils show that howler monkey ancestors were eating leaves 13 million years ago, shaping body size and evolution.

The oceans of the Cretaceous of North America teemed with life. Gigantic fish and enormous marine reptiles hunted the Western ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

A new giant long-necked dinosaur, Dasosaurus tocantinensis, unearthed in Brazil, reveals ancient land connections. Its close evolutionary ties to a Spanish species suggest dinosaurs migrated between ...

Deep-sea fossils have long fascinated scientists, offering glimpses into the ancient past and revealing the mysteries of prehistoric life. Recent discoveries of shark fossils in deep-sea environments, ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

A remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces ...

The new species, named after the electro funk band Chromeo, helps explain the larger story of why only one small group of dinosaurs survived the extinction. A fossil rarely reveals an animal’s entire ...

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A microscopic magnetite fossil (left) discovered in sediment below the North Atlantic, seen using X-ray microscopy; the fossil?s ...

A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.