Workers at Dinosaur National Monument uncovered a long-necked dinosaur fossil during asphalt removal.

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Scientists have said fossils of a small newly discovered dinosaur found in Spain could change ideas on the evolution of ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

The Texas Science and Natural History Museum has unveiled a major upgrade to its basement exhibit, transforming it into an ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Prior to this discovery, trace fossils from the Middle Jurassic in Asia had largely been limited to dinosaur and turtle tracks, with no documented evidence of amphibians.