Kristen Miller, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at KU’s Biodiversity Institute, analyzed the Texan fossils to ...

A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago ...

A tiny, wrinkly, sack-like sea creature with a huge mouth and no anus could be your ancestor. Saccorhytus was an ancient creature that roamed the Earth 540 million years ago, and according to a ...

3-million-year-old stone tools found, and our ancestors likely didn’t make them. Evidence suggests the tools were used by the human relative Paranthropus, which scientists previously believed ...

Bad Boy for Life But Not a Koala – Diddy Roasts Courtroom Sketches of Himself Looking Like a Marsupial. Trent Fitzgerald. Trent Fitzgerald Published: June 6, 2025.

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about early animal evolution. A strange and spiny fossil, once thought to be ...

This mutation is becoming more common because we eat soft, cooked foods now and don't need to do all the chewing our ancestors did. But scientists can also see that individual genes are changing ...

Anglerfish ancestors once roamed the seafloor. Here's how we know : Short Wave There are over 200 species of deep-sea anglerfish; some are long and thin, some are squat and round, some have fins ...

The maxilla analyzed in the study. Credit: J. Braga et al. These new fossils change the picture because they allow us to glimpse how very young humans grew two million years ago, revealing highly ...

Palorchestes azael was an unusual-looking marsupial that possessed a skull with highly retracted nasals and a long protrusible tongue, strong forelimbs, and enormous claws. If the early modern humans ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems ...