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

Human history features a pivotal moment when four-legged beings stood upright on two legs. Scholars regard this shift as the ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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 ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

A research team led by Associate Professor Wang Yaqiong from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese ...

Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...