A remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil, the most complete ever found, is revealing secrets of early flight. Discovered in Germany ...

Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...

A newly discovered tiny mammal is sending shockwaves through the evolutionary science world its traits and fossil record are ...

Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an animal that trotted ...

While the tetrapods initially still needed water to reproduce, the evolution of the egg and internal fertilisation led to the ...

The giant moa, taller than a giraffe and truly wingless, was New Zealand’s towering bird that vanished shortly after human ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of tree frog – one that once hopped and croaked around an ancient lake near ...

Now that Wits University has taken over management of the Wits Sterkfontein Caves, they have been reopened to the public.

Your teeth play important roles in your daily life, but have you ever wondered how humans evolved to have them? Skin scales ...

Through his journeys along river systems in Ecuador, Quebec and India, he explores what it means to recognise, in law and the imagination, that rivers are living entities.