A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

A group of anthropologists’ new analysis offers powerful evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis—a species discovered ...

Advanced biomechanical modeling shows that early mammal ancestors likely used an eardrum to hear airborne sounds 250 million ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

A remarkable fossil discovered in northern China suggests that multiple human species once shared the region around 150,000 ...

Learn how rare fossil feathers preserved molting patterns, revealing new findings of dinosaur flight.

While hiking with his father through Alberta’s Horseshoe Canyon, 12-year-oldNathan Hrushkin stumbled upon a fossil jutting ...

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

Until not that long ago, scientists widely agreed on the evolutionary journey that plants took from the oceans to the land. They thought that algae evolved into mosses and their relatives, known as ...