About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, called Cryodrakon boreas, ...

The earliest-known dinosaur fossils date to roughly 230 million years ago, including Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus from ...

Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

The fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile unearthed in Canada shows tell-tale signs of being bitten by a crocodile-like ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

COLUMN. An international team has just traced the evolution of this iconic, toxic and invasive amphibian, with some ...

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to Gilles Laurent, director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and ...

A recent study from July 2023 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B sheds light on how marine mammals, like ...

Among the many fossilized stars is a 26-meter-long Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis, a gigantic herbivore that lived around 150 million years ago and had one of the longest necks of its species. It is ...

Analysis - Scientists have long puzzled over how pterosaurs became the first vertebrates to master flight. Some pterosaur species, such as the Quetzalcoatlus were the largest known animals to ever ...