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 ...

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

When it comes to studying dinosaurs, it's not always an easy task, but a random discovery in West Texas has changed our understanding of one dino.

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.

A sculptor's rendering of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis is displayed as part of an exhibition that includes the 3.2 ...

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

New research reveals a prehistoric shark 115 million years older than Megalodon, rewriting the timeline of shark ancestry.

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...

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