Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is urging countries to turn to clean energy that can be less vulnerable to the shocks of fossil fuels.

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

A Triceratops named “Trey” has been a popular exhibit at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis for 30 years. Now on the auction block, it has ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

People have been fascinated by fossils for centuries, from the days when strange bones were mistaken for dragon remains to the mind-blowing dinosaur discoveries of today. They’re physical links to a ...