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, ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have shifted over time. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly dated ...

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 study published in the journal Evolution on September 26, 2018, suggests that certain models used to explain the theory of evolution might be statistical ...

A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a previously unknown genus and species of Pliocene mole. The fossil was unearthed at ...