New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

New radioisotopic datings of volcanic fossil sites are helping researchers unravel the evolution of mammals. The University ...

ULAANBAATAR: A previously unknown species of ancient mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period, ...

In Northeast China, scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery: two new dinosaur species, one of which contains the ...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 20 attorneys general have sued to challenge Trump’s dismantling of the Institute of ...

"While radioisotopic methods are not new in determining the age of fossils, this represents a significant paradigm shift in dating volcanic sedimentary layers that contain mammal fossils," says ...

Researchers found evidence of a Madagascar mammal whose teeth did not seem to be from this world, and limbs were a mixture of ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists wish to ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...