A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

A 289-million-year-old mummified fossil of Captorhinus aguti, discovered in a Richards Spur, Oklahoma cave, has revealed the ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

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

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions ...

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

Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire ...

A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived may influence our understanding of early human evolution. Much of the early human fossil record ...

But new research shows that it was a case of mistaken identity with the fossil hiding its true nature as a result of de ...