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

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 ...

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

From feathered dinosaurs to frozen mammoths, fossils keep upending science with discoveries that rewrite the history of life. National Fossil Day is not just about admiring dinosaur skeletons or ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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