A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are ...

Paleontologists at Chicago's Field Museum have concluded that a cluster of stones lodged in the ancient bird's throat likely ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a half-billion-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact.

A new dome-headed dinosaur speices found in Montana, Brontotholus harmoni, reveals unexpected clues about their evolution.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...