The year 2000 was, in so many ways, momentous. It was a new millennium, which always come with a doomsday prophecy or two; we ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

Learn how X-ray imaging revealed the first fossilized egg from a mammal ancestor, showing how Lystrosaurus reproduced 250 million years ago.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of what Prototaxites may have looked like 400 million years ago. - Matt Humpage Some 400 million years ago, ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

The fossils were found in a cave with an underwater stream, where they were simply picked up from the streambed.

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant instead of gradually unfolding over deep time. A new idea about how ...

A paleontological site discovered in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has yielded more than 700 fossil specimens ...