Scientists Identify Chicken-Sized Dinosaur That Rewrites the Dinosaur Family Tree, Filling a 70-Million-Year Evolutionary Gap ...

Researchers describe a rare type of gene family, known as “universal paralogs”, that provides insight into evolutionary history predating the last universal common ancestor of all life. Detailed ...

An MIT study suggests some early life forms may have evolved the ability to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years before ...

Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn't always been the case. It wasn't until around 2.3 ...

Chernobyl’s frogs are turning black, not by accident, but by evolution. Their dark skin may hold the key to surviving ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved.

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

An international team has described Foskeia pelendonum, a tiny Early Cretaceous ornithopod from Vegagete (Burgos, Spain), measuring barely half a meter long. Led by Paul-Emile Dieudonné (National ...

Scientists from several countries have identified a new dinosaur species called Foskeia pelendonum, a very small plant-eating ...

The dragon blood tree is one of the rarest trees in the world, adapted to survive in extreme and isolated environments. Its ...