Sea fossils found on some of the world's tallest mountains are reigniting fierce debate over whether the biblical story of ...

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

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 ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Homo habilis is a paradoxical species. On the one hand, ...

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.

Two species, believed extinct for thousands of years, were rediscovered alive in New Guinea, challenging our understanding of ...

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

Fruita’s location makes it an ideal stop for anyone traveling through western Colorado. It’s just minutes from Grand Junction and right off Interstate 70, so you can easily add it to your itinerary ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than scientists believed possible for its kind. The species is called Tanyka ...

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