Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

"It was very striking." ...

Tiny Fossils Just Overturned What Scientists Thought They Knew About Life on Land ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...

Our ancient four-legged ancestors didn't have an amphibian-like life cycle when they began walking on land, according to a ...

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than ...

A colossal new sea predator named Tylosaurus rex has been identified from fossils found in Texas, revealing a brutal 43-foot-long hunter that ruled ancient oceans 80 million years ago. The discovery ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

Pinning down the most titanic of the large sauropod dinosaurs is not an easy task, since the odds were generally against the biggest ones being buried and preserved ...