Call it an unfinished story, but with a plot that's a grabber. It's the tale of an ancient land mammal making its way back to the sea, becoming the forerunner of today's whales. In doing so, it lost ...

A fossil skull from a site called Gawis in Ethiopia is apparently intermediate in form between Homo erectus and our own species, Homo sapiens. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our ...

Berkeley -The fossilized skulls of two adults and one child discovered in the Afar region of eastern Ethiopia have been dated at 160,000 years, making them the oldest known fossils of modern humans, ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - In the search for a missing evolutionary link to modern whales, scientists have come up with an unlikely land cousin -- a raccoon-sized creature with the body of a small deer.

(Reuters) - The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But how the avian brain evolved over many millions of years from an ...

A team of paleontologists led by University researcher Neil Shubin has discovered the fossils of a 375-million-year-old creature that is the missing evolutionary link between water-bound fish and the ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah — In the shadow of the appropriately named Fossil Ridge Intermediate School, there is a race against time to uncover prehistoric treasures before they're lost to urban development.