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 Noah's Great Flood could be rooted in real events.

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 fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

An extraordinary rhino fossil found in the Arctic is reshaping everything we know about prehistoric life and evolution.

Scientists used a particle accelerator to reconstruct the 3.7-million-year-old face of Little Foot, one of the most complete ...

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

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

Researchers have uncovered 300-million-year-old reptile skin impressions in Germany, the oldest direct evidence of reptile ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...