Paleontologists at Chicago's Field Museum have concluded that a cluster of stones lodged in the ancient bird's throat likely ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

A new study shows that Cleveland's famous sea monster Dunkleosteus terrelli actually had a more normal size and jaw than ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

Learn how a unique combination of anatomical traits and CT-scan data led researchers to classify Chromeornis as a new dinosaur species — and reconstruct the behavior behind its unusual death.

The fossil called "Medusa" could be a dinosaur mummy—the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years old that ...

After theorizing on the fossilized bird’s cause of death, the paleontologists decided on the new species’ name: Chromeornis ...

Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But ...

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...