Scientists may have uncovered evidence that a mammal ancestor was giving birth to live young 236 million years ago. A fossilized cynodont showed a neonatal growth line and an unusually large birth ...

Growth rings on a fossil bone suggest at least one mammal ancestor gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs 236 million years ago.

A newly identified primate species from Wyoming is challenging a long-standing model of early primate evolution. The species, ...

That’s the premise of a paper published earlier this month in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. The research began as an effort to categorize known examples of fossilized poop, or coprolites, from both ...

Keeping pets seems to be fairly recent behaviour in the timeline of human evolution. Columnist Michael Marshall turns to the ...

Life reconstruction of the burrowing stem snake Tametara mirim against a background of sauropod dinosaurs and the enantiornithean bird Navaornis from the same locality in the Adamantina Formation, ...

We call them "man's best friend," and the evidence supports it. Dogs have been found buried alongside humans in graves dating ...

Life on Earth is thought to have emerged from the primordial ooze some four billion years ago. Now a provocative new study ...

Barcelona’s badge has undergone several redesigns over the years, but its core identity has remained remarkably consistent throughout.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Preserving Indiana’s diverse musical heritage, the Indiana Music History Project operates out of a basement in Broad Ripple, collecting stories, memorabilia, and accounts that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There’s a phrase that professional evolutionary biologists like to bandy around because it is true, useful and ...