A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

Fossils show that howler monkey ancestors were eating leaves 13 million years ago, shaping body size and evolution.

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans. Remains of the now extinct shrew-sized ...