Experts have discovered a huge new species of fish-eating dinosaur. It has been named Spinosaurus mirabilis and scientists say it lived nearly 100 million years ago. The fossil was found in the Sahara ...

An Albuquerque museum curator was part of a team that identified a new species related to the muskox — one that roamed thousands of years ago and found its final resting place in what's now known as ...

Millions of years ago, England was a much different place than it is today. In the Late Eocene, England was rich with ...

Recent fossil discoveries in New Mexico have provided compelling evidence that dinosaurs were thriving just before the asteroid impact that led to their extinction 66 million years ago. These fossils, ...

Scientists have discovered Spinosaurus mirabilis, a massive "hell heron" dinosaur that rivaled T. rex and hunted fish in ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - A fossil site in New Mexico with numerous dinosaurs, including the gargantuan Alamosaurus, dates to shortly before the asteroid strike that abruptly ended the age of ...

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 ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

Archaeologists uncovered ancient hominin fossils along Morocco’s Atlantic coast, and it could fill a major gap in human evolution. A recent study published in the journal Nature revealed that the ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

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 ...

Recently-revealed notebooks belonging to a late paleontologist contain the missing information needed to help researchers finish their study of a remarkable fossil discovered nearly three decades ago.