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.

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

A jawbone retrieved from the bottom of the Taiwan Strait has been confirmed as belonging to a Denisovan, one of humanity’s ...

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Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Everything about the discovery of a fossilized leatherback sea turtle in Alabama four years ago is fascinating. The findings of the never-before studied species were published in a study Friday, ...

Is a mysterious, small tyrannosaur fossil from Montana just a juvenile? Or did tiny tyrannosaurs once walk the Earth? New research published in the journal Nature on October 30 offers evidence that ...

A fossil unearthed along the coast of England was identified as a new species of a renowned “sword dragon” reptile that dominated the sea during the Jurassic Period. The nearly complete ichthyosaur ...

A fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England has revealed the "biggest bug that ever lived," paleontologists say. The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a chunk of ...

It’s known as the “Dueling Dinosaurs” fossil: A triceratops and a tyrannosaur, skeletons entangled, locked in apparent combat right up until the moment of their mutual demise. Even in the Hell Creek ...