A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

The Haţeg Basin in western Romania holds one of the greatest fossil assemblages from the Late Cretaceous period, and it ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

A fossilized larva dating back over half a billion years has been discovered with its brain, digestive system, and nerve ...

Experts from the Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest began work to preserve and showcase a massive ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

A newly published scientific study is reigniting debate over human evolution in Africa after researchers suggested that the ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...