The fossil record documents the history of life, but the reliability of that record has often been questioned. Spatiotemporal variability in sedimentary rock volume, sampling and research effort ...

Scientists have found the oldest evidence for animals in the fossil record. The researchers examined sedimentary rocks in south Oman, and found an anomalously high amount of steroids that date back to ...

Tara Djokic and co-authors received funding for this research from the Etheridge family descendants; Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum Trust; and Australian Research Council (ARC ...

Recovered from sedimentary rock strata deposited in an ancient Chinese lake roughly 55 million years ago, Archicebus achilles provides a key link in the history of human evolution. By Lindsey ...

Say an EKG machine is monitoring your heart, when it suddenly flatlines. You’d be keenly interested to know whether your heart had stopped or the machine had simply gone on the fritz. Paleontologists ...

Feb. 12 (UPI) --New fossil evidence recovered from Gabon suggests organisms were mobile as early as 2.1 billion years ago. The next oldest evidence of motility dates to 570 million years ago. Several ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites—McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into ...