Some colorful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model ...

During the course of evolution, the mammalian cranio-mandibular secondary joint—formed by the dentary condyle and the squamosal glenoid fossa, which replaced the reptilian articular–quadrate ...

Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have ...

Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to the paper. Much of what is known about human evolution and early hominins ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the first large-brained humans. That's because it dated back about a million ...

A fossil discovered in Scotland provides new insights into one of paleontology's most enduring mysteries: the origins of ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding ...