Imagine digging in your garden and coming across something unexpected: a fossil! Here's what you should do to identify it and ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...

An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized ...

On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...

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

Found in an Ecuadorian quarry, this amber preserves insects and plant material and provides an intimate look into life on the ...

In a state often defined by its agricultural landscape and urban centers, Cedar Bog stands as a living reminder of Ohio’s wild past – a place where rare orchids bloom in surprising abundance, ancient ...

Fossilized fish ear stones—known as otoliths—can reveal far more than previously thought. In a recent study, a team of ...

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.

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fossils now show bees and linden trees goes back 24 million years.