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.

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where ...

Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't ...

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.

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

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

In 1989, paleontologist Darren Tanke suggested that similar breaks were the result of mating as one dinosaur mounted the ...