A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

“Ankle bones of Purgatorius exhibit features that indicate it lived in trees, so we initially thought its absence south of Montana could be related to the sweeping devastation of forests from the ...

The dinosaur lineage has provided us with some of the most truly terrifying animals to ever walk the planet. But we eventually learned that all birds are actually theropod dinosaurs. Looking at ...

Here are 10 Chicago exhibitions we’re already planning to visit this spring.

Did dinosaurs live in Alabama? Fossils, museum finds and the famous Selma dinosaur egg reveal the state’s prehistoric past.

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

Paul Sereno, a University of Chicago paleontologist, and his team were in the heart of the Sahara Desert in 2019 when they came across scattered teeth — fossils from some ...

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.

In a study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, researchers Dr. Giovanna M. X. Paixão and her colleagues ...

STEM Night at the South Carolina Stingrays game as they take on the Atlanta Gladiators at 7:05 p.m. at the North Charleston Coliseum. Roller Skating on the Point will be ...

Courtesy of Zhu Youan. Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of bony fish dating back about 436 million years, providing key evidence that hel ...