A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

“Ankle bones of Purgatorius exhibit features that indicate it lived in trees, so we initially thought its absence south of Montana could be related to the sweeping devastation of forests from the ...

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

Seventy seven million years ago, the wetlands of what is now Alberta, Canada were filled with dense forests, muddy floodplains, and the echoes of dinosaur calls. In this episode, we meet Corythosaurus ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

Deep in the heart of Borneo’s tropical rainforests, a rare and mysterious living fossil lurks in the shadows: the earless ...

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

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 ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

Elon Musk is on board with the idea of having a real-life Jurassic Park. While he didn’t offer to fund the idea himself, he ...