For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its ...

"The chances of finding one fossilized are practically zero," said one of the scientists who is researching the specimen ...

Sir Robert is one of the world's most respected scientific voices. He's a former chief scientist for the UK's department of ...

Connecticut high school student Aidan Connor found a 150-million-year-old Jurassic dinosaur fossil during a paleontology dig, ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a half-billion-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact.

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor. The iconic "Lucy" fossil would reveal much about our species' ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their claws even into solid rock ...

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...