One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw ...

Fossilized dinosaurs are emerging as a new asset class, subject to the whim of the market, exposed to the laws of supply and ...

Tiny chemical samples of teeth can infer its diet and body temperature too. It is also important for scientific debate that ...

The museum that first opened in May 2023 near the Grand Canyon is home to over 7,000 fecal specimens called coprolites from ...

A new species of small, venomous reptile, Microzemiotes sonselaensis, has been discovered in the Late Triassic Chinle ...

A couple from Somerset are looking for a new home for their enormous fossil collection, in the hope it stays together after ...

Google Doodle celebrates the discovery of Staurikosaurus, an early theropod dinosaur that offers key insights into the ...

Bones of prehistoric ancestor to dolphins found in Summerville. The 29 million-year-old killer had knife-like teeth and a ...

Researchers have discovered new fossils of the extinct Caribbean monkey Antillothrix bernensis in the Dominican Republic. The ...

Researchers say they uncovered new evidence documenting the anatomy and ecology of an extinct primate once found on ...

Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few ...