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

Introduction. Famous fossils, hidden histories -- The old man of La Chapelle: the patriarch of paleo -- Piltdown: a name without a fossil -- The Taung Child: the rise of a folk hero -- Peking Man: a ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen, ...

Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. — ScottRobertAnselmo — CC BY-SA 3.0 Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural ...

Researchers have unearthed two dinosaur “mummies” in Wyoming—and the fossils within shed light on what the duck-billed creatures would have looked like 66 million years ago. The dinos are a pair of ...

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess. Now, a team of ...

Over 300 million years ago, Illinois teemed with life in tropical swamps and seas, now preserved at the famous Mazon Creek fossil site. Researchers from the University of Missouri and geologist Gordon ...

Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne ...