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
A new study explains that humans evolved from an ancestor not limited to tree or other elevated habitats, and sheds light on what preceded human bipedalism
A new study reports the recent discovery of most of a skull and associated remains dating to around 300,000 years ago in Hualong Cave (Hualongdong)
Callichimaera perplexa, earliest example of a swimming arthropod with paddle-like legs since the extinction of sea scorpions more than 250 million years ago
Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, a carnivore known from most of its jaw, portions of its skull, and parts of its skeleton, was a hyaenodont larger than a polar bear
