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

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

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to fossil fuels from its online page about climate change causes.

A rare 520-million-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact has been found. The fossilized sample — a tiny larva ...

Sir Robert is one of the world's most respected scientific voices. He's a former chief scientist for the UK's department of ...

Connecticut high school student Aidan Connor found a 150-million-year-old Jurassic dinosaur fossil during a paleontology dig, ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

The UN on Tuesday unveiled its largest-ever scientific assessment on the dire state of the environment, but a crucial summary of its findings was torpedoed as nations feuded over fossil fuels.

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored ...

Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex.

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 mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...