A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

A rare 520-million-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact has been found. The fossilized sample — a tiny larva ...

This newly identified species, called Chromeornis funkyi, was discovered with a throat full of tiny stones, a discovery that ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...