How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of evolution. Around 540 million years ago, a sudden, astonishing ...

The story of Earth's first animals may need rewriting after ancient fossils revealed an earlier start to complex life.

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 ...

Imagine digging up a fossil that completely rewrites what scientists thought they knew about prehistoric life. Some dinosaur discoveries have done exactly that, revealing feathers on creatures we ...

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 ...

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

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 ...

Two great apes — one small, one large — coexisted in what’s now Germany 11.6 million years ago, a new study says Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet, lived ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New ...

The discovery of new cynodont fossils from southern Brazil by a team of palaeontologists has led to a significant breakthrough in understanding the evolution of mammals. These fossils, belonging to ...