After 15 years, we know the first Denisovan skull.” With these words, Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced a paradigm-shifting moment in human evolution research, as molecular ...

Enigmacursor darted around North America in the Late Jurassic 145-150 million years ago and its skeleton now be on display in ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite living near the impact site in Mexico.

For over a century, scientists have puzzled over a fundamental mystery in our evolutionary history: how did mammals go from ...