Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

A supercomputer simulation has unveiled a shocking glimpse into Earth’s distant future: a world where the continents merge ...

A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...