Scientists have just unearthed the fascinating ancient monotreme dubbed the echidnapus at Australia’s Lightning Ridge, a creature that lived 100 million years ago. This ancient blend of echidna and ...

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 animation created for Evolution: "Great Transformations" depicts creatures whose fossils were found at the Burgess Shale. As alien as these creatures seem, they are also surprisingly familiar.

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 ...

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 ...