The signs are seemingly uncontroversial, reports say.

A team of scientists has uncovered ancient fossils in Morocco that challenge conventional theories about the origins of life on Earth.

Something unusual keeps turning up in marine sediments. These are large crystals of magnetite, formed by biology rather than geology, and preserved fo.

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

A 400-million-year-old fossil has just been uncovered, revealing surprising new insights that could completely reshape our ...

Ancient fossil structures imprinted on rocks that were once deep beneath the ocean suggest the search for the first life on ...

The human chin is one of evolution’s strangest quirks. Unlike other primates, we alone have a protruding bony point beneath ...

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells and insect exoskeletons, in trilobite fossils more than 500 million years ...

In late autumn 1988, Richard Hebda — then head of botany at the Royal BC Museum — stepped into the living room of a man named ...

Remains of an ancient Arctic rhino indicate that land mammals traversed the North Atlantic via land bridges, and did so much more recently than previously thought.

A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of ...

If you imagine the earliest animals on Earth, you might picture something simple but sturdy. Maybe a sponge-like creature ...