Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and ...

When a student stumbles on a fossil that turns out to be over 30,000 years old, it changes the way science is seen – not as ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

Authorities said that tourists visiting a South Carolina island came across centuries-old human skeletal remains.

Dozens of U.S. states and local governments have filed lawsuits alleging that fossil fuel companies misled the public about ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to ...

Bone fragments from Homo erectus have emerged that shed new light on humans' ancestry in Southeast Asia from the last Ice Age ...

A new Archaeopteryx fossil with soft tissue reveals flight features and offers fresh support for Darwin’s theory of evolution ...

Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters ...