Rather than a single ancestral line steadily evolving toward modern humans, the evidence points to an evolutionary “bush” of ...

The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Find the fossil sites' interactive display, Maropeng exhibition, Cradle of Humankind. flowcomm, CC BY South Africa has one of the ...

Learn more about Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, a fossil-rich site that could help fill key gaps in marine evolution.

A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Scientists discovered the world's largest and deepest whale graveyard, preserving millions of years of ocean history.

Chapter 1. The fossil record of parasitism: Its extent and taphonomic constraints -- Chapter 2. Importance of data on fossil symbioses for parasite-host evolution -- Chapter 3. Biodiversity and ...

Parasites of Fossil Vertebrates: What We Know and What can We Expect from the Fossil Record? / Tommy L. F. Leung -- Fossil Record of Viruses, Parasitic Bacteria and Parasitic Protozoa / George Poinar ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...