New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era ...

This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full moon, and more.

The fossil, called Penghu 1, is one of the few known pieces of physical evidence from the Denisovans, extinct relatives of ...

Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it ...

The dire wolf from the ice age was brought back to life with the help of an Ohio fossil. Here's what you need to know and how it happened.

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...