11-year-old Ruby Reynolds unearthed the largest-known marine reptile fossil on England’s coast, unveiling the 82-foot ...

A 21-million-year-old fossil has been safely removed from the beach at Ocean Grove, east of Geelong, in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in Victorian ...

Strolling a familiar beach and stumbling upon a relic from the age of dinosaurs sounds like pure fantasy, yet that is exactly what happened on England’s west coast. A stretch of shoreline below ...

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

Fossils show that howler monkey ancestors, Stirtonia victoriae, were eating leaves 13 million years ago, altering body size ...

Tiny fossill of purgatorius upper molar from Corral Bluffs in Denver. (Dr. Stephen Chester via SWNS) By Stephen Beech A ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

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

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

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 ...

Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...