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

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

For the first time ever, paleontologists have found fossil traces of burrowing bees nesting inside the buried bones of other ...

Roughly 190 million years ago, long before ice sheets blanketed the southernmost continent, a massive plant-eating dinosaur ...

Two fossil hunters dropped into a Florida river that looked like brewed coffee and came back with a time capsule. What ...

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

(CNN) — A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently locked in prehistoric combat — an epic meeting of two of the world’s ...

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The ...

Researchers show that tiny armored dinosaur fossils, Liaoningosaurus paradoxus, were actually baby ankylosaurs.

The mystery surrounding dozens of small dinosaur fossils has finally been solved. Remains previously thought to belong to ...