Scientists call for a major acceleration in coral assisted evolution research to help reefs cope with rapidly warming oceans.

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...