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

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

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.

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

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their ...

In the world of paleontology, anything this unusual is important and we feel privileged to be able to interpret them,” the ...

Scientists discovered Xiphodracon goldencapsis, a 3-metre Early Jurassic ichthyosaur on England’s Jurassic Coast, revealing ...

Instantly recognizable by their spiral shells, these ancient predators were relatives of modern squid and octopuses. Because ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

Researchers have uncovered remains of several mammals, birds, and many more creatures from the Can Mata landfill in Spain.

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering ...