Briefings

Climate change likely drove ancient African megaherbivores to extinction

Discovery of ancient Australopithecus anamensis skull

Discovery of Denisovans expands the human family tree

Discovery of Homo naledi

Dog domestication

Dog domestication may have occurred first in Siberia

Feathered dinosaur tail in amber

Fossil evidence of the oldest Homo sapiens in Europe

Fossil may push back age of genus Homo

Ground-dwelling birds survived the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

Ichthyornis provides clues for avian evolution

Late survival of the Neandertals questioned

Lazarus effect and Lazarus taxa

Mammoth cloning and de-extinction

Oldest common ancestor of chickens and ducks

Oldest lizard fossil specimen identified

Possible origin of colored eggs in dinosaurs

Previously unknown shark extinction event occurred 19 million years ago

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus identified as the first known aquatic dinosaur

Tentative fossilized evidence of oldest animal life