Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of ...

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into ...

They’re little time capsules, often holding stories so bizarre they make modern nature look boring. Some fossils reveal just how weirdly life used to work, while others pop up in the most unexpected ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

Recently-revealed notebooks belonging to a late paleontologist contain the missing information needed to help researchers ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...

Those who know a lot about fossils are likely already familiar with the Mazon Creek fossil just outside Chicago. Those who don't know a lot about fossils and the Mazon Creek site? They soon will, ...