Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

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 ...

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

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

To wood or not to wood, that's been the question! Ever since oil-based plastics burst onto the manufacturing scene, cost, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists working with Indigenous communities in Papua, Indonesia, have stunned the conservation world by confirming that two small mammals thought extinct for around 6,000 years are alive in the ...

Scientists didn't just find a "living fossil" in West Papua—they found two. In remote rainforests of New Guinea's West Papua region, researchers have confirmed living populations of a tiny striped ...