In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested ...

Deep-sea fossils have long fascinated scientists, offering glimpses into the ancient past and revealing the mysteries of prehistoric life. Recent discoveries of shark fossils in deep-sea environments, ...

Finding dinosaur bones is not something that is exactly common, but it isn’t unheard of either. Today, most old dinosaur fossils are found by professionals who know where to look, but regular people ...

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision ...

When you think of prime locations for finding fossils of the ancient creatures that inhabited our planet thousands of years ago, notable places like Egypt and China may come to mind. But what about … ...

A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one ...