A new study, concerning the cave of Bàsura at Toirano and its fossil traces, identifies crawling behaviours from around 14,000 years ago
The discovery of Alcmonavis poeschli has implications for the debate over whether active flapping birds arose from gliding birds
Most amber inclusions are organisms from the forest. It is very rare to find sea life: a new study now reports the first known ammonite trapped in amber
The new species, named Ambopteryx longibrachium, belongs to the Scansoriopterygidae, one of the most bizarre groups of non-avian theropods
Extreme fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen levels corresponded with evolutionary surges and extinctions in animal biodiversity during the Cambrian explosion
A new tyrannosauroid dinosaur, Suskityrannus hazelae, was only marginally longer than the just the skull of a fully grown Tyrannosaurus rex
A new study claims the Matera fossil, the largest whale fossil ever described, as a close relative of the living blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Reconstruction of the most complete fossil lizard found in Australia, a 15 million year old relative of our modern blue tongues and social skinks named Egernia gillespieae
A new study found that Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Pleistocene and were adapted to this low-oxygen environment
In a new study, the changes in brain shape over the course of human evolution, considering the evolutionary relationship between humans and other primates
