The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

The timing and location of our species’ emergence remain unclear for lack of evidence but a new discovery in Morocco brings ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

Learn how fossil evidence shows that ceratopsians lived across Europe during the Late Cretaceous, challenging long-held ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...