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

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

For fifteen years, scientists possessed only ghostly DNA evidence of the Denisovans—an ancient human lineage known solely ...

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 ...

Learn how early reptiles began building the visual and brain skills needed for flight long before takeoff.

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

The discovery of Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells is giving UNSW scientists new insight into the animals and ecosystems that existed millions of years ago, long before Australia separated ...

His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.

Learn how newly discovered vertebrae from a 6- to 8-meter shark pushes the origin of mega-predators back by 15 million years.

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows ...

A teenager’s summer dig in Montana led to an unexpected scientific moment, offering a rare glimpse into ancient history and ...