Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The famous analogy goes that if all of Earth’s geologic history was compressed into a single calendar year, modern humans wouldn’t make an appearance ...

Long before vertebrates walked on land, millipedes had the place to themselves. Hundreds of millions of years before ...

Ancient ape skull from Turkey could reshape human evolution timeline ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

A new study has established the first-ever evolutionary history of all living millipedes, one ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis. University ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for the origin of ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...