The second fossil of my grandmother is the sparrow of her voice, how it woke me often, calling in the night. The third fossil ...

The discovery of a newly identified species — the oldest saber-toothed animal found and an ancient cousin to mammals — fills ...

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 ...

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

The Fossil Record Electronic Database (FRED) is an important tool for many paleontologists—and amateur dinosaur enthusiasts can use it, too.

Queensland Museum scientists describe the 400-million-year-old fossil Palaeospondylus australis, possibly the smallest ...

Each emphasizes three key components of the record of primate evolution: history of discovery, taxonomy of the fossils, and evolution of the adaptive radiations they represent. The Primate Fossil ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite calls to halt humanity’s burning of the filthiest fossil fuel driving climate change, the energy watchdog expects ...

The preliminary findings show global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels rising 0.8 percent in 2024 compared to last year, ...