An international team of researchers has discovered a half-billion-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact.

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

WINONA, Minn. — It was a dinosaur that once roamed the Earth 66 million years ago, and now a big piece of it sits housed in a ...

WINONA, Minn. (KTTC) – A team of Winona State University faculty and alumni discovered a massive 66-million-year-old fossil ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor. The iconic "Lucy" fossil would reveal much about our species' ...

A newly examined Neanderthal skull, once thought to confirm cold-climate adaptations, has challenged a century-old assumption ...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of sauropod dinosaur, Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis, from a partial skeleton ...

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

More than 250 million years ago, life on Earth faced its most devastating crisis — a global event so severe that it wiped out nearly three-quarters of life on land and an even larger share in the ...