Scientists have uncovered something extraordinary inside the skull of an Archaeopteryx fossil.

Some 150 million years ago sauropods dramatically shaped the dinosaur ecosystem in what is now the western U.S., according to a new study ...

Recent digs revealed roughly 20 feet of a long-necked dinosaur's skeleton, and paleontologists suspect even more bones are lurking underground ...

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

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where ...

The Djadochta Formation contains some of the most unusual dinosaur fossils ever found, yet their story remains incomplete. Skeletons preserved in lifelike positions suggest sudden events that ...

For decades, scientists thought the oceans took tens of millions of years to recover after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Most marine life was gone. Complex ecosystems were expected to rebuild slowly.

Newly uncovered fossils have helped researchers determine that an unusual 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot discovered in 2009 does not belong to Lucy’s species. Instead, the evidence now indicates ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. All this time we were aware that there might be more, even older ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...