Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the ...

Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm ...

T. rex evolved in North America from Asian ancestors. Climate shifts and extinction events helped tyrannosaurids and ...

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

A new Archaeopteryx fossil with soft tissue reveals flight features and offers fresh support for Darwin’s theory of evolution ...

Alligators are often seen as modern swamp predators, but science tells us they’re ancient creatures that walked the Earth long before dinosaurs. With fossil records dating back over 200 million years, ...

Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

A new fossil and DNA analysis traces how dozens of sloth species responded to climate shifts and humans. Just two small tree-dwelling sloths remain today.

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...