The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...

OUTSIDE Java, which has yielded many important finds of fossil remains from the Pithecanthropus group of mankind and an abundance of fossil vertebrates, as well as two distinct palæolithic ...

While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

Early jawless fish were likely to have used bony projections surrounding their mouths to modify their mouth shape while they collected food. Experts led by the University of Birmingham have used ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest ...

Oct. 5, 2021 — A new study gives insight into how limb development evolved in vertebrates. The findings identify a gene that plays a central role in the evolution of limb development in vertebrates.

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the ...

New observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile reveal the earliest-ever "baby pictures" of our universe, showing some of the oldest light we can possibly see.

The dinosaur, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long, weighed approximately 575 pounds (260 kg) ...