For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Deep in ancient rock, researchers have uncovered a creature so well preserved that its brain and internal organs are still ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor. The iconic "Lucy" fossil would reveal much about our species' ...

Scientists debate mosquito origins as fossil evidence and genomic studies clash, revealing new insights into their ...

WINONA, Minn. (KTTC) – A team of Winona State University faculty and alumni discovered a massive 66-million-year-old fossil ...

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

While other species downsized and died out across millennia the anaconda remains an Amazon giant. The Green Anaconda is the ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname ...

The team more closely examined the bones of the specimen now named Ahshiselsaurus wimani and compared them with bones of ...