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

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

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.

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, ...

A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the ...

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 ...

Researchers in China achieved a milestone by directly dating a fossilized dinosaur egg at 85.9 million years old, marking a first in paleontology. Using carbonate uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating, ...

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 ...

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