A set of giant Megalodon vertebrae that vanished for decades has been rediscovered in Denmark, confirming that this ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

Traces or perforations caused by living organisms after an animal's death can be found on various dinosaur bone remains.

"It was very striking." ...

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes.

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

Learn how long-lost Megalodon vertebrae confirmed the giant shark’s size, revealed its age, and preserved the first fossil ...

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...

An international study of infant remains from 50,000–75,000 years ago has provided new evidence about the developmental ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Credit: Gaorong Li and Xiaodong Wang New fossils hint that the roots of complex animal life stretch further back than ...

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than paleontologists. Black market smugglers routinely rob both the East Asian country of its ...