The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

A team of paleontologists discovered the well-preserved fossil of an ancient snake skull from La Buitrera Paleontological ... required you to be close to the ground, scanning the grit, pebbles ...

"Part of the skull of the Piltdown man ... He was amazed to see that the fossil teeth seemed to have been deliberately ground down with something abrasive to give them a unique wear pattern.

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

He added that the fossil is the only complete human skull fossil found in South China that allows for precise stratigraphy and reliable dating. "The fossil has value for studies on early human ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was ...

A largely complete fossil skull of the "Bastetodon syrtos"—replete ... remarkable—a set of large teeth sticking out of the ground," paper author Shorouq Al-Ashqar, a paleontologist in the ...

Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old ...

Claws, like fossil skulls and skeletons, are body fossils ... You can see growth rings in some tree fossils, such as this petrified tree trunk Sometimes ground water dissolves the buried bone or shell ...