In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed ancient magnetic fossils that suggest the existence of a long-lost ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

Researchers found that these dinosaur-era flying reptiles developed an evolutionary pathway independent of that observed in ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur ...

An unusual type of fossilized fish can be found within the limestone of present-day Germany. The Late Jurassic era conditions ...

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus species that lived alongside Lucy more than ...

When it comes to studying dinosaurs, it's not an easy task, but a random discovery in West Texas has changed our ...

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows some closer resemblance to our later ancestors.

His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.

Ever since the first fossil was pulled from the sandstone formation at Hell Creek, Montana, at the turn of the last century, the Tyrannosaurus Rex has reigned supreme as the ultimate apex predator. In ...