The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval ...

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

We’ve all seen some version of the classic evolutionary diagram. A fish crawls out of a primordial swamp, sprouts legs, ...

Life on Earth began in water, yet a new fossil discovery suggests that the earliest vertebrates to venture onto land may not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Aug 30, 2025, 01:53pm EDT Aug 30, 2025, 02:18pm EDT Dickinsonia ...

A reconstruction of the Jiangchuan biota, an assemblage of early animals represented by fossils from a newly discovered fossil site in China?s Yunnan Province dating to about 554 to 539 million years ...

Life on our planet began in the water. Eventually, one branch of the fish family tree developed legs and came up on land.

WASHINGTON — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The newly identified chemical ...

Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For decades, bryozoans seemed oddly absent from the Cambrian explosion, the burst of ...