Evolution Diary

This four-million-year-old fossil has taken some of the bite out of the great white shark’s supposedly menacing ancestry, a new study finds. (…)

A giant head and gill-covered body make this newly reconstructed creature (pictured) “one of most bizarre fossil creatures that there is,” one scientist said. (…)

Illustration courtesy Li-Da Xing
A newfound dinosaur fossil with feathers suggests that plumage may have begun to appear with the rise of all dinosaurs more than 200 million years ago. (…)

It’s about as unlikely as capturing a “fossil sneeze,” but researchers have found the second known set of octopus fossils, a new study says. (…)

It’s an evolutionary discovery Darwin himself would have been proud of. (…)