United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is urging countries to turn to clean energy that can be less vulnerable to the shocks of fossil fuels.

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

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

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

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 ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

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

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

A creature whose relatives evolved roughly 500 million years ago — before dinosaurs, before trees — was sitting on the ocean floor off South Korea, misidentified as something it wasn’t. Two biologists ...