This supports Darwin's theory of evolution, which states that simple life forms gradually evolved into more complex ones. Evidence for early forms of life comes from fossils. By studying fossils ...

Under certain conditions fossils might not have been created. Parts of organisms do not always decay because the conditions needed might be absent, and so they may be preserved in different ways.

Pioneering research reveals the origins of the ventral nerve cord in early molting animals. An international team of ...

Fossils are physical evidence of prehistoric animals and plants. They tell us about the history of our planet, from climate and evolution to diets and diseases. There may be more to these prehistoric ...

The earliest fossil evidence for sharks or their ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician Period. Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, ...

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 ...

Scientists Believe a Tiny Apelike Species That Existed 50,000 Years Ago May Still Be Walking Amongst Us, Call It 'Living ...

Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A ...

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 ...

This implies that dinosaurs may have retained their scaly reptile skin during the early days of feather evolution. "Collectively, the fossil evidence supports partitioning of skin development in ...

Cambrian fossils from the Kuanchuanpu Formation reveal details of early nervous system evolution in ecdysozoans ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa -- ate very little to no meat, according to new research. This conclusion comes from an analysis of ...