Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

More than 300 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur let out a roar, a small, four-legged creature was busy ...

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several fossils with possible cut marks from Grăunceanu, Romania. Briana Pobiner Looking again through the magnifying lens at the ...

BEIJING — Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the aftermath ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...