Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

Once in a while, a fossil preserves behavior - and in 1923, a small feathered theropod from Mongolia seemed to be caught red-handed over a clutch of eggs, earning the name Oviraptor, the “egg thief.” ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

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A Harvard physicist who once accepted evolution without question says a surprising encounter with faith forced him to rethink ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

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For more than a decade, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been climbing a Martian mountain, reading the planet’s ancient history layer by layer. Now, a discovery of web-like rock for ...

A rare ancient document from Sudan confirms the historical existence of King Qashqash, a Nubian ruler once known only from ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...