When fossil collectors Robert Sinibaldi and Joseph Branin went for a regular dive in the Steinhatchee River on Florida, back ...

Scientists have scrutinized the fossil records of many organisms looking for evidence of punctuated evolution. One group of coral-like sea organisms in particular, called bryozoan, shows this kind ...

But this research, which has been published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, shows these trace fossils pre-date similar animals currently found in the fossil record. Luke Parry, lead author from the ...

The chance discovery of a long-forgotten tray of fossils in the collections of the Australian Museum has highlighted a previously unknown “Age of Monotremes” that thrived while dinosaurs ruled the ...

MIZUNAMI, Gifu Prefecture--Fossils uncovered here are thought to offer a key to resolving how seals and walruses went their separate ways in evolution. A lower jaw fossil of a pinniped was found ...

the evolution of diverse ape lineages,” Böhme says. With the addition of Buronius, European fossil ape genera related to modern great apes from between roughly 16 million and 6 million years ...