When did the first hominins start to walk upright? Recent studies of an upper leg bone from *Sahelanthropus tchadensis* ...

Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

Meet Mosura fentoni, a bizarre 506-million-year-old "sea-moth" with three eyes, claws, and an abdomen full of gills.

The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to 40 million years earlier than previously thought -- thanks to ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...

Our new study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, reveals how this hidden mountain chain emerged more than 500 million years ago when the supercontinent Gondwana formed from ...

Our new study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, reveals how this hidden mountain chain emerged more than 500 million years ago when the supercontinent Gondwana formed from ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

For example, the Himalayas are still rising today as the Indian and Eurasian plates continue to converge, a process that began about 50 million years ago. Plate tectonic models suggest the crust ...