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

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

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

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than ...

A cave in New Zealand has yielded fossils from a lost ecosystem that existed about 1 million years ago, including a possible ...

About an hour's drive southwest of Chicago, in the coal-mining spoil heaps of northern Illinois, lies one of the most ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

A mummified fossil fish was forgotten in a university basement until a son's chance discovery brought it back to science.

July 23, 2026 By Maggie Meier Recently, our team attended the opening of the Fossil Frontiers exhibit at the Adventure ...

In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link to the region’s evolutionary history. César Perdomo, a rancher and fossil ...

Imagine you’re walking to work when you unwittingly make a massive contribution to science. That was the experience for a Southern California science teacher who discovered a never-before-seen whale ...