Remains of this key transitional species date to a mysterious "black hole" in the fossil record.

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Chance discovery of 365-million-year-old fossil reveals new species - The large fish, spanning nearly a metre on the lake bed ...

My wonderful week in the John Hay Writing Studio in Brewster came to an end this past weekend, and here it is Monday and I’m ...

NEW YORK — The NBA announced today that 50 players have notified the league that they wish to be removed from the list of “early entry” players eligible for selection in the NBA Draft 2025 ...

Arjan Mann, the assistant curator of fossil fish and early tetrapods at the Field Museum, raises his pickax May 8, 2025, after climbing to the top of a Mazon Creek fossil bed, which used to be the ...

But the new findings, published on May 14 in the journal Nature, challenge such long-held assumptions and signal that the transformation of tetrapods living in water to living on land likely ...

But the new findings, published on May 14 in the journal Nature, challenge such long-held assumptions and signal that the transformation of tetrapods living in water to living on land likely ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans) was previously thought to have emerged at the dawn of the Carboniferous period ...

The Gondwana fossil record of early tetrapods is shockingly incomplete, with enormous gaps that could conceal - well, just about anything. This find now raises a big evolutionary question.

Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil footprints found in Australia that upend the early evolution timeline of all tetrapods. It also suggests major parts of the story ...