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

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

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

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

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

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.

Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkable 150-million-year-old dinosaur trackway in Colorado, featuring over 130 footprints from a sauropod. The unique looping path, stretching 310 feet, strongly ...

A student discovers the first dragonfly fossil from the age of the dinosaurs in Canada. Cordualadensa acorni lived 75 million ...

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

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...