The resulting fossils now provide evidence that there ... Only five of these rare mammals still cling to existence: one platypus and four echidna species, shared between Australia and Papua ...

Scientists have scrutinized the fossil records of many organisms looking for evidence of punctuated evolution. One group of coral-like sea organisms in particular, called bryozoan, shows this kind ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like ...

But this research, which has been published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, shows these trace fossils pre-date similar animals currently found in the fossil record. Luke Parry, lead author from the ...

In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...

MIZUNAMI, Gifu Prefecture--Fossils uncovered here are thought to offer a key to resolving how seals and walruses went their separate ways in evolution. A lower jaw fossil of a pinniped was found ...

“This discovery introduces a new actor in the story of human evolution in Europe,” Huguet said at a March 11 press briefing. Huguet’s team digitally scanned each fossil fragment to create a ...

the evolution of diverse ape lineages,” Böhme says. With the addition of Buronius, European fossil ape genera related to modern great apes from between roughly 16 million and 6 million years ...

SYCP3Y is duplicated from autosomes and expanded in both platypus and echidna, suggesting that the gene expansion may be associated with the evolution of the sex chromosome complex or play a role ...