Researchers found remains of a thriving marine community that existed at the beginning of the Dinosaur Age in the Arctic ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Fossils aren't just something you find at dig sites. Correction: 3:03 Actually, it was the American Museum of Natural History ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

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

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

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