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

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

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

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the season of skeletons approaches, it’s worth remembering that the real “age ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became. Scientists studying ancient teeth found that early humans, great apes, and even ...

A’ carries on in the footsteps of Arceus, by breaking from a lot of series norms. And we have a few tips to help get you up ...

Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, called a tenaculum, helps males hold onto females during mating. Genetic ...

The Texas Science & Natural History Museum hosted a fossil identification event on Oct. 15 in celebration of National Fossil ...

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

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

A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier ...

Paleontologists say a newly discovered species from Argentina's high-altitude Andes provides an evolutionary hint to how ...