FOSSILS discovered in Scotland from 443 million years ago of the first groups of vertebrates possessed “surprisingly advanced” eyes and ...

Scientists analysing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of ...

AI is helping scientists make sense of messy dinosaur footprints, offering new clues about how dinosaurs moved, evolved, and ...

The Dinotracker app was trained on eight major characteristics of dinosaur footprints to quickly determine the species.

When you hear the word "dinosaur," the first thing that might spring to mind is a hulking skeleton like Sue the T rex in ...

Along a roadside in Anhui province, eastern China, cannonball-sized fossils recently caught the attention of paleontologists ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...

For a place named Dinosaur, it’s been a while since the small Colorado town revealed any actual fossils. But after a 101 year ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over a significant gap in the fossil record of Earth's earliest animals, with genetic ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ancestors of Neandertals, Denisovans and modern humans. “We can say that the ...