In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Finding dinosaur bones is not something that is exactly common, but it isn’t unheard of either. Today, most old dinosaur fossils are found by professionals who know where to look, but regular people ...

An ancient hornless rhino fossil found in the Canadian Arctic, Epiaceratherium itjilik, shows rhinos once lived much farther north.

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.