Analysis - For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa.

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 ...

A new dome-headed dinosaur speices found in Montana, Brontotholus harmoni, reveals unexpected clues about their evolution.

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

Scientists have confirmed that Nanotyrannus was a mature species, not a young T. rex. A microscopic look at its hyoid bone ...

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

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