High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flinders University paleontology researchers—with local fossil experts—have discovered how prolific shorebirds, including the ...

For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...