A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

Divers plunging into Mexico's submerged Sac Actun cave system in 2007 stumbled upon a hidden world of Ice Age fossils, ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

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

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

For 70 years, fossils in Alaska were thought to be mammoths. New tests reveal they are ancient whales, rewriting museum ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution.