A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

New fossil discoveries are forcing scientists to redraw the boundaries of ancient oceans, suggesting that some of the most ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

A prehistoric predator long lost to time just reemerged as a fossil replica, and it’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen.

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

A rare fossil from Thailand identifies a 25-foot spinosaurid that lived along river systems 125 million years ago.

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...