A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

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

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

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia's seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world ...

Fossils discovered beneath the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal a previously unknown population of Homo erectus inhabiting ...

By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

Palaeontologists are astonished by the dense fossil remains. The bone bed stretches nearly a kilometre in length. At its ...

A team of experts assert it’s the jawbone of an ancient mosasaur. Dissenters in Alberta say it’s too good to be true. Testing ...