The paper documents the earliest known evidence of birds nesting in polar regions. Each spring, the Arctic comes alive with the sounds of chirping and the arrival of fluffy hatchlings, as millions of ...

Mastodon bones and teeth found in the Yukon were all older than 50,000 years old, while enduring farther south until about 10,000 years ago.

Beneath the Grand Canyon’s iconic layers, scientists have uncovered a fast-paced, 500-million-year-old tale of evolution that ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

Newly Discovered Fossils Reveal Birds Have Been Nesting in the Arctic Circle for Almost 73 Million Years Ancient fossils have ...

A team of researchers from Japan, China, and Brazil have discovered a new species of pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of ...

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Scientists used enamel proteins from 2-million-year-old teeth to find unexpected variation in Paranthropus robustus.

The Appalachian Mountains are some of the oldest geological features on earth. And they also hold fossils that tell us about some of the very earliest life forms that we'll ever manage t ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Natural History Museum analysed fossil ...