Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

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In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

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The work, titled "Loss of Earth's old, wise and large animals," is published in the journal Science. Humans are responsible for the decline of these animals. The review explains how in freshwater and ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

The newly found fossils are 209 million years old and include at least 16 vertebrate species, seven of them previously unknown.

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...