The astronomical idea doesn’t align well with the fossil record, anthropologists argue, but the origins of bipedalism are still difficult to determine.

Fossils of two dinosaur skeletons found in New Mexico are from a species new to science that lived 92 million years ago.

From 500-million-year-old fat to a newly discovered virus, here are some stunners from The Scientist in 2018.

Researchers describe the remains of a clutch of extinct mammal-like animals.

Microbes were living on land as early as 3.22 billion years ago, fossilized rocks show, 500 million years earlier than previously documented.

Nutrient-rich water helped marine organisms reinhabit Chicxulub crater relatively quickly after the mass-extinction event.

Newly discovered fossils shed light on the structure of the feeding apparatus of ancient seabirds.

Authors of a new study suggest that 520-million-year-old structures, previously identified as the brains of ancient arthropods, are instead preserved microbial biofilms.