Ancient fossilized babies of crocodile-like predators are rewriting evolutionary history. Previously, scientists believed ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the ...

Fern-like bodies once covered the seafloor, some stretching as tall as a person. Yet for millions of years, the animal world ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The evolution of some of the earliest complex animals on our planet may ...

To clarify the early evolutionary history of Cicadoidea fossils, the phylogenetic relationships between Mesozoic fossils and extant Cicadoidea, the macroevolution of body structure adaptations, and ...

Scientists discovered a fossil-rich whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean, offering new clues about ancient marine life and whale evolution.

NEW YORK — Scientists have long posited the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like ...

Entire groups of organisms – and possibly even ecosystems – may still await discovery within museum drawers or poorly studied ...

Many animals exhibit fascinating collective behaviors, which allow them to move, search for food, reproduce and avoid threats ...