The UK-wide research team developed new records of past CO₂ levels by analysing ancient ocean sediments

Using fossilized remains, scientists completed the entire mitrochondrial genome of the shelled mammal the size of a VW Beetle

C. abyssinicus revealed answers about gorilla lineage but also provided fossil evidence that our common ancestor migrated from Africa.

UA researcher Nicholas Strausfeld says that for many, the 2012 discovery of a fossilized brain was hard to believe. Today, he’s changing minds.

Thirty-nine of the species discussed in the new study no longer exist on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas

The specimen was fossilized with remarkably intact guard hairs, underfur, tiny hedgehog-like spines, and even evidence of a fungal hair infection

If this is the case, the discovery would show that the disease had been around for much longer than we think

Researchers discovered the reddish brown color of two extinct species of bat from fossils dating back about 50 million years

Homo naledi, uncovered in South Africa, sheds light on the diversity of our genus and possibly its origin

Environment-modifying organisms drove Earth's first mass extinction, and could do it again today