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 ...

Paleontologists have often determined how old a dinosaur was by counting the growth rings in its bones. Just like with trees, ...

Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...

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 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 ...

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

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

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

New research suggests that large land predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago, much earlier than scientists once thought. Fossil evidence from Texas ...

new study reveals that large predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago, ...

Turns out the key to discovering a new type of dinosaur might be a weird toe in an Idaho museum. Or a skull in Switzerland. Idaho State University paleontologists are examining whether these and other ...

She’ll ruin us,” hissed one of the scientists as his hand clenched a shot glass. I came upon the poster session of the conference, where newbie scientists, mostly Ph.D. students, present findings that ...