After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

They are like fossils of an alien species, artifacts of a civilization that died mid-sentence amid some volcanic catastrophe.

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...

It took nearly 50 years to work out the identity of a caribou-like fossil first discovered by construction workers.

The American Museum of Natural History has found a more appropriate space for Apex, a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton lent ...

This eastern Montana town is packed with things to do, from visiting its vibrant art hub and fascinating frontier museum to ...

The dolphin-sized creature, named Xiphodracon Goldencapensis or “Sword Dragon of Dorset,” had a long, blade-like snout and ...

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That, Granatosky says, was part of the fun. The Chicago Rat Hole turned out to be a modern example of the same kind of trace evidence scientists use to reconstruct ancient life. “It really speaks to ...

Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, called a tenaculum, helps males hold onto females during mating. Genetic ...

Decades after the discovery of the Oldowan toolkit, we’re still waiting for the species responsible to put their hand up.