Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

ARUSHA: THE wind sweeps across jagged cliffs and deep ravines at Olduvai Gorge, carrying whispers of footsteps that walked ...

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossil of a new scorpion species, Jeholia longchengi, in China’s famous Yixian Formation.

A remarkable fossil discovery in India is giving scientists new clues about how some dinosaurs reproduced. Researchers have ...

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 ...

A colossal discovery in the world of dinosaurs is now on display right here in Chicago. The Spinosaurus mirabilis, or amazing ...

Learn how fossils from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park revealed that a Late Triassic crocodile relative may have started life on four legs before walking on two as an adult.

That visibility comes with scrutiny. Mammals are among the best-studied organisms on Earth - and among the most threatened.

New solar energy research has demonstrated that electrons can move across solar panels at a speed far greater than previously understood.

Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people picture biodiversity, they often ...