Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.

The Los Angeles Unified School District announced Thursday that it has joined hundreds of school districts across the country ...

The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two ...

Butterfly fossils are rare, and finds that preserve fine anatomical details and wing patterns are an absolute exception. An ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Our study suggests that our eyes descend from a worm-like ancestor that was roaming the oceans 600 million years ago. The ...

A new analysis of a specimen found more than 40 years ago reveals the oldest known chelicerate, defined by its pair of pincer ...

It had been a long day of teaching for Rudy Lerosey-Aubril. As a reward, he returned to cleaning an intriguing Cambrian ...

A bird that has puzzled ornithologists since the 19th century may have finally surrendered its secrets. Cutting-edge DNA ...

The classification of animal groups is essential to the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying ...

Mirabestia maisie and Astyra mclaughlinae are named after family members and colleagues, while Elimedon breviclunis is named ...