18, 2024 — New archaeological research has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian dingo, and dogs from East Asia and New ... Sep. 18, 2024 — A ...

Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

A team of Australian researchers has described a new species of now-extinct sawfly from an extremely well-preserved fossil found in central NSW. A new species of small, venomous reptile ...

New Fossil Fish Species Scales Up Evidence of Earth's Evolutionary March Sep. 12, 2024 — Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...