Scientists have recently discovered what they thought may have been the world’s oldest marine vegetarian reptile. First discovered in China in 2014, the crocodile-sized reptile had a hammerhead face with specialized yet bizarre-looking snout used for scraping algae on the ocean floor.
The discovery of a strange, mammal-like reptile shows that this species lived in the same age as ancient mammals, giving clues to evolution.
The giraffe's long neck evolved in order to help it reach out to vegetation in high trees.
According to the interdisciplinary study reseach on fossil and living bony fish reveals enamel formed on the skin of fish and later evolved in the mouth.
Fossils in a cave have taken back scientists to an exciting era of Homo Naledi, an early member of the evolutionary human group.
Researchers have discovered structures that appear to be red blood cells and collagen-like fibers in dinosaur bones that might be 75 million years old.
Early homo species varied in size as much as today's modern humans. The study shows large bodies homo species developed after early homo species migrated from Africa.
