Lead author Dr Roger Benson says the fossil may show that snake ancestors were very different to what we expected ...

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MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...

A fossil discovered on the Isle of Skye has been revealed as a new species of Jurassic reptile which was an ancient ancestor ...

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

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At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of ...

Scientists discovered molecular fossils that reveal sponges were among Earth’s earliest animals.

Java Man’, or remains of a Homo erectus unearthed by Dutch geologist Eugene Dubois in Java, were used to suggest the ...

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding ...