At a time when other paleontologists were convinced that the fossil record could best be explained by directed variation, Simpson disagreed. He said that fossil patterns needed no mystical or goal ...

We call all of the fossils we have found the fossil record. This record shows us how living things have changed from simple life forms billions of years ago. Not all fossils have been found and ...

The study produced the first full skeleton reconstruction of the ... because they date to a murky and critical point in the fossil record - about 10 million years before the first fossil pterosaurs.

Lead researcher Ian Hughes, a Ph.D. candidate from Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, expressed the excitement surrounding the find, noting, "Ecdysozoans were prevalent in ...

Darwin himself was shaken by their absence. His conclusion was that the fossil record was lacked these transitional stages, because it was so incomplete. That is certainly true in many cases ...

The 2m-long pliosaur fossil featured in a BBC film with Sir David Attenborough A Dorset museum displaying the skull of a huge sea creature said it has had a record number of visitors. The 2m-long ...

Wildfires and droughts combined with record fossil fuel burning made 2024 the worst year ever for pumping carbon into the atmosphere, experts say. The horrifying study by the Met Office found ...