According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

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

Sea fossils found on some of the world's tallest mountains are reigniting fierce debate over whether the biblical story of ...

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

He also noted that features such as bipedalism, toothless beaks, hollow bones, and large eye sockets are typically associated ...

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 ...

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

But hiding along a stretch of Interstate 90 in Central Washington is a geological marvel that rivals anything you’d find on ...

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

Two species, believed extinct for thousands of years, were rediscovered alive in New Guinea, challenging our understanding of ...

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