The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

Scientists have discovered a water-bottle sized dinosaur fossil in Patagonia, Argentina. The tiny predator lived 95 million years ago and ranks among the smallest dinosaurs ever identified.

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

Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...

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

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) will host ...

The caution kept the mammoth extinction story intact, but it turned the bones into a new kind of mystery. A run of ...

The most complete known Australopithecus fossil, dubbed “Little Foot,” now has a face, albeit ...