Analysis - For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Scientists have confirmed that Nanotyrannus was a mature species, not a young T. rex. A microscopic look at its hyoid bone ...

Lamniform sharks such as great whites and tiger sharks are famous for their size. The first such giants evolved 15 million ...