A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang." ...

At least five specimens have been discovered of a tiny iguanodont dinosaur that could have an outsized influence on how we ...

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago. In two separate studies, experts in Australia and China have ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

An analysis of marine fossils from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation in Panama, most belonging to the Myctophidae family, discovered four new species, one of which has been named in honor of Brigida ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

“For decades,” explained Worthy, “the extinction of New Zealand’s birds was viewed primarily through the lens of human ...

Learn more about the animals that were living inside the 'lost world' of this New Zealand cave.