A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

For over 300 million years, the ammonites ruled the prehistoric seas. Finding an ammonite fossil isn’t particularly rare (they can be unearthed all over the world) but they’re still thrilling to ...

A Colorado museum hit the Jurassic jackpot. A team of scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a dinosaur fossil hundreds of feet beneath the building's parking lot earlier ...

Modern rock wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas, but fossils show they need to travel.

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Yabba Dabba Doo! The Denver Museum of Nature & Science announced on Wednesday that it discovered a nearly 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossil underneath its parking lot in City Park in ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...