Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America ...

Plus: something strange is happening to reindeer antlers, peering into pterosaur brains and scientists use AI to find ...

A giant marine predator, once believed to roam only the seas, may have also inhabited ancient rivers 66 million years ago.

A Mazon Creek fossil shows a horseshoe crab riddled with pits, likely from microbes or parasites, revealing a ...

A newly discovered dinosaur species, was hidden in museum archives for over a century, challenging long-held beliefs about ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

The Goblin shark has survived nearly unchanged since ancient oceans, earning its reputation as a true living fossil. This video walks through its discovery, its transparent skin that reveals blood ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The Pachycephalosaurus skull belonged to a dinosaur with a domed-shaped head that lived around 67 million years ago ...

Around 200 million years ago, long before flowers existed and back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, some of the first plants ...

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically shifts the timeline of leech evolution by more than 200 million years.

The skeleton sat inside the Suining Formation rock bed. This layer dates to 147 million years ago. The sediments indicate a ...