When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...

A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged the classification of one of the world's most complete human ancestral ...

A Tel Aviv University–led study of 160-million-year-old fossils shows that some feathered dinosaurs likely became flightless, challenging the idea that the evolution of flight followed a linear path ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this ...

Ocean Grove beachgoers have discovered what appears to be an ancient whale fossil in rock pools, with local volunteers ...

A newly unearthed fossil has led experts to believe an ancient species of crocodile may have been an apex predator that hunted dinosaurs on land. Paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer Diego ...

Researchers at the newly discovered site reported finding more than one hundred vertebrate fossils per square meter, making it one of the densest fossil deposits known. The Hațeg Basin in Transylvania ...

Manitoba is well-known for its fossil record, including the fossil-filled, world-famous Ordovician-aged Tyndall Stone and the world's largest mosasaurs, or marine reptiles, from the Cretaceous period.