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

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

There will be a community reads gathering at the 577 Foundation on Thursday, March 19, from 6 – 7 p.m. The event will feature “The Sacred and The Superfund,” and essay from “Braiding Sweetgrass,” ...

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

A "peculiar" ancient relative of the crocodile which experts believe began life on four legs before, in adulthood, it learned how to walk on just two has been revealed in a new study. Named ...

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

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 ...

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) in Jackson hosted the 23rd Annual Fossil Road Show on Saturday. “People bring fossils from across Mississippi to get ...

Inside the Trump administration, many of America’s top regulators have deep ties to heavily polluting industries, raising ...

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.

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable ...