The Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, which is home to the Hyde Park mastodon and the largest number of fossils ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

Maybe that black cat that crossed your path wasn’t so bad after all. For the dinosaurs, an extinction-causing asteroid derailed what seemed to be a pretty good run. “It’s all just bad luck,” said New ...

One thing that northwestern New Mexico is known for is lots of dinosaur fossils. Previously, paleontologists estimated that ...