About 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period, a large proportion of species on Earth rapidly became extinct.

An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did ...

Tiny flowers trapped in amber around 15 million years ago are offering scientists a rare glimpse into the plant life of a ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Human evolution wasn’t a steady ...

Reconstructing the origins of our species requires many kinds of evidence: fossil and archaeological evidence like bones and artefacts, but also molecular evidence such as ancient DNA, and data on ...

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of genes for over 120 million years to produce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The teaser for the next big Godzilla movie, Godzilla Minus Zero, is here, and while most fans seem to agree that the movie looks ...

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 ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the Jurassic Park movies, it’s that running a dinosaur theme park isn’t easy. It’s a constant balancing act of keeping your employees satisfied, making your park ...

When we look at the world around us, we see a wonderous variety of living things—with fins, fronds or feet, living in the deepest ocean or the driest deserts, eating seeds or salmon or sunlight. The ...