More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized ...

New evidence suggests some fossils as the oldest known sign of life on Earth, and scientists may have a way to speed up the ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

October 11, 2017 is National Fossil Day! Kallie Moore, the collections manager at UM’s Paleontology Center, talks to Hank ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...

CONICET scientists discover 'Yeneen houssayi' in Neuquén, a new species of sauropod dinosaur that lived approximately 83 ...

Italians began exploring a varied diet sometime between the 7th and 6th centuries BC, according to a new analysis of ancient ...

There is no doubt that science is advancing by leaps and bounds, allowing us to resolve doubts and answer questions that ...

A research team led by Zeresenay Alemseged, a researcher at the University of Chicago in the United States, discovered 2.6 ...

20 years after skeletal remains washed up on a Washington beach, they were finally identified as a former Oregon mayor who ...