Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that the most significant event on Earth was the evolution of photosynthesis. The ability to harvest energy from light freed life from the need to scavenge energy ...

New fossils suggest early apes originated in Africa, strengthening evidence that all modern apes trace their roots to the ...

The findings were led by two mammalogists, Honorary Associate of the Australian Museum, Professor Tim Flannery; and Professor Kris Helgen, Chief Scientist and Director of the Australian Museum ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ago ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

Fossils and evolution / P.D. Gingerich -- Biological extinction in terms of overadaptation / T. Hamada -- Revolutions and colonizations in the history of life / B. Halstead -- The genomic tag ...