A man in Pombal, Portugal, made an unexpected and truly jaw-dropping discovery while working on his property back in 2017—a collection of fossilized dinosaur bones. At first, it was just a few curious ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

Ischigualasto Provincial Park in Argentina, often known as the “Valley of the Moon,” is a spectacular desert landscape filled with massive red rock formations and ancient geological structures. The ...

The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates.

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and ...

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

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

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

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

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

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