Researchers have discovered the oldest known example of a predator-prey “arms race,” based on their study of ancient fossils.

A record bowfin was caught on a NJ creek on a warm day last month. Bowfin are living fossils as they're last survivor of a ...

At a time when other paleontologists were convinced that the fossil record could best be explained by directed variation, Simpson disagreed. He said that fossil patterns needed no mystical or goal ...

Such treasures were presented to the world in 2024 that have changed the way we see life on Earth, both in the evolution of ...

Because life as we know it depends on the death and decomposition of organisms, the fossil record is necessarily incomplete. As such, finding fossils involves not only perseverance and luck ...

Darwin himself was shaken by their absence. His conclusion was that the fossil record was lacked these transitional stages, because it was so incomplete. That is certainly true in many cases ...

A hedge fund billionaire bought the skeleton at Sotheby’s for $44.6 million in July, toppling the previous record — for a T-rex named Stan — and underscoring fossils’ status as luxury collectibles for ...

One way we can understand the effect of climate change is to look at the geological past - millions of years ago - and the fossil record, to see what happened to organisms during periods of time in ...

Which adaptations were likely present in the earliest hominoids? 1) A deficient fossil record. There are few Oligocene sites in Africa that represent the appropriate time period, and although ...