Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

When a horse gallops, there is a moment when all its feet leave the ground — the moment of suspension. Scientists digging for fossils in ... for understanding the evolution of bodily forms ...

The earliest horse ancestors started popping up in the fossil record around 56 million years ago. Most early horses sported three full-sized toes touching the ground, with the Eocene era’s ...

and tapirs as well as horses — reveals the trajectories of evolution throughout the period. A Land of Horses Of the over 550 fossils found in the sinkhole thus far, around 75 percent are fossils from ...

The new date could rewrite a few key stages in the history of human evolution ... such as horses unearthed around the hominin fossils, or the flowstone linked with the fossil layers — thin ...

In a forbidding Wyoming desert, scientists and fortune hunters search for the surprisingly intact remains of horses ... in the evolution of ray-finned fishes. He has led dozens of fossil-finding ...

thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ancestor. The new research could upend what’s known of the evolution of the most primitive ...