New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

The find gives fresh perspectives on early reptile diversity and evolution in the Triassic period ... with the discovery that animals such as Retymaijychampsa had a niche akin to present-day ...

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...

Scientists recreate ancient proto-feathers in chicken embryos, revealing evolutionary resilience in feather development.

The fetus, measuring around 50 centimeters, was positioned in a way that indicates it was in the final stages of prenatal ...

Guy Plint is no stranger to tracking prehistoric beasts. Over the past 40 years, the Western Earth Sciences professor emeritus has studied the ...

Surviving cataclysmic events, such as the Permian-Triassic extinction that wiped out 96% of marine ... small populations of ginkgo trees were rediscovered in remote regions of China during the early ...

Environmental stress in evolution can be reframed as a powerful engine of innovation, not simply a barrier to survival.

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...