Far below the waves, where sunlight never reaches, a fragment of bone has forced scientists to redraw parts of the human family tree. An ancient jaw dredged from the seafloor between China and Taiwan, ...

You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at Dinosaur National Monument.

Ancient lungfish fossils show how early fish evolved features that eventually allowed animals to leave the water and adapt to life on land.

A jawbone retrieved from the bottom of the Taiwan Strait has been confirmed as belonging to a Denisovan, one of humanity’s most mysterious relatives. The fossil, discovered at depths of 60 to 120 ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Scientists have said fossils of a small newly discovered dinosaur found in Spain could change ideas on the evolution of ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.