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 ...

A leathery fossil unearthed from Antarctic sediment is overturning core ideas about how Earth’s dominant marine reptiles ...

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

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has sent researchers everywhere from North Dakota to Antarctica in search of fossils to study and display. It turns out they could have stayed home. The museum ...

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

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

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

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

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.

There are several steps that go into a researcher finding a fossil. First, you have to figure out what kind of fossil you want to find. You need to know the age of the rock you’re looking for, who ...

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 ...