Recent fossil finds in Africa are revealing a more intricate picture of human evolution than the straight-line model many imagine. From unique walking adaptations to overlapping species and ...

Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity to walk upright on two ...

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

Unprecedented remnants from the Ice Age have been recovered from a water cave in Comal County. While snorkeling for fossils in Bender’s Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This goblet-shaped fossil from the Jiangchuan Biota in China's Yunnan province is an early species from a group that includes ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

More than 539 million years ago, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These ...

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The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period when they rapidly diversified, with familiar features evolving alongside ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...