Evolution Diary

Primate fossil ‘not an ancestor’
The exceptionally well-preserved fossil primate known as “Ida” is not a missing link as some have claimed, according to an analysis in the journal Nature. (…)

Move over, Lucy. And kiss the missing link goodbye.

Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. (…)

Exceptionally well preserved dinosaur fossils uncovered in north-eastern China display the earliest known feathers.
The creatures are all more than 150 million years old. (…)

A new fossil find may be an evolutionary missing link in the amphibian family tree, scientists say. (…)