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

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

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

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 ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

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

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

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 ...

Scientists at the University of Leicester have uncovered two remarkable new fossils, tiny prehistoric pterosaurs with broken wings. University of Leicester paleontologists have uncovered the ...