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

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

Deep within a cave, 3 miles underground, scientists uncovered a perfectly preserved snake fossil. The discovery has experts baffled, revealing a new chapter in the history of ancient creatures.

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

A local museum will soon have a skull recreation on display of an ancient creature that hasn’t even been officially named yet ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...

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

Over the past 40 years the Royal Tyrrell Museum has been at the forefront of palaeontological exploration, and beginning Saturday visitors will be able to travel back in time to the museum’s opening ...

In the basement of Connecticut's Beneski Museum of Natural History sit the fossilized footprints of a small, chicken-sized ...

Museum denies exits linked to criticism of organisation's long-standing relationship with BP and the involvement of companies ...