A 555-million-year-old fossil found in South Australia provides crucial evidence for the Precambrian origins of Ecdysozoa, ...

Virginia Tech’s study traces early eukaryotic evolution, highlighting life’s diversification since 2 billion years ago.

While skeletal fossils have long provided the primary evidence for studying human evolution, new data from fossil footprints are revealing fascinating details about the evolution of human anatomy ...

In a new study published in Current Biology, researchers describe Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old worm-like organism ...

Maria Martinon-Torres, director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution ... Tokyo said the site fills a critical gap in fossil evidence from the transitional period between Homo ...

They date back to around 300,000 years ago – a period between archaic Homo erectus and modern Homo sapiens for which limited fossil evidence ... in East Asia in their evolution process towards ...

7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took ... which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus, offers important clues about ...

"It is between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens -- a period for which fossil evidence is scarce. Additional finds like these are invaluable," said Yosuke Kaifu, a professor at the University of Tokyo.