Discovery of Our Distant Ancestor Fossil Reveals They Were Only a ‘Meter Tall’, Easily Preyed Upon by Leopards Humans have ...

They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, “the world’s most important animal fossils”—not Tyrannosaurus rex, not Lucy, but a collection of ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will be the first to study these ancient relics up close. “While we can hardly wait to observe these fossils from the early solar system, the warm-up asteroids are ...

While reconstructing the behavior of fossil species is always challenging, Reynolds notes, the sheer number of dire wolf individuals found at asphalt seep sites strongly hints that the canids ...

Researchers also found the remains of two rodent-like mammals in the gut of this dinosaur’s fossil, which represents ... in this region hints at a lack of species exchange with other areas ...

Scientists have discovered two new feathered dinosaur species in northeastern China hidden in 125-million-year-old fossils. The find sheds more light on the diversity of two-legged theropod ...

According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal ... an endangered species. The successful birth of these dire wolves ...