New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

Scientists say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile, which was around 12 feet long, lived about 80 million years ago.

Working at a known dinosaur fossil site in Alberta, Canada, the scientists measured lichen colonization in three microfossil ...

An "incredible discovery" and a "chance finding" is how a family have described uncovering a prehistoric hand axe. Mel ...

Finding dinosaurs is a mixture of knowing where to look and pure luck. It typically involves paleontologists hiking for miles ...

A tiny Caribbean ant fossil, Basiceros enana, trapped in amber reveals a lost species and rewrites the evolutionary history.

In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous fossil comes from the Kachin region in Myanmar and was preserved in excellent ...

A paleontologist and a team of volunteers recently made a historic discovery at a Maryland park known for its fossils, according to an announcement from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning ...

The newly classified species, named Plesionectes longicollum ("long-necked near-swimmer"), represents a previously unknown type of plesiosauroid—the group of long-necked marine reptiles that inhabited ...

Missouri’s most common fossil is an invertebrate, the crinoid, also known as “sea lilies”. Despite the name, they’re more ...

Working at a known dinosaur fossil site in Alberta, Canada, the scientists measured lichen colonization in three microfossil ...