An event 20 years in the making, the Idaho Museum of Natural History created a 3D replica of an ancient crocodile skull, the ...

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

THE first-ever fossil skull of a Stegodon — an extinct relative of modern elephants — was discovered by a local in Solana, ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

A fossil found by a pair of hikers last year has turned out to be the skull of a huge new species of prehistoric fish that lived around 72 million years ago. The hikers came across the fossil in ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past. Discovered in 2000 from the Karewa sediments near Pampore, the skull remained a ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...

A fossil skull from a site called Gawis in Ethiopia is apparently intermediate in form between Homo erectus and our own species, Homo sapiens. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our ...