Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial ...

An ancient 410-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric organism that reveals an "entirely extinct evolutionary branch of life" will be displayed at the National Museum of Scotland (NMS). The ...

Deep inside an Oklahoma quarry, palaeontologists discovered a small fragment of skin that is rewriting the history books. The ...

The most complete known Australopithecus fossil, dubbed “Little Foot,” now has a face, albeit ...

A remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces ...

A 400,000-year-old giant sloth femur was discovered in Argentina, preserving rare muscle marks that reveal how these Ice Age ...

A team co-led by University of Minnesota researcher Peter Makovicky and Argentinean colleague Sebastian Apesteguía has identified a 90-million-year-old fossil that provides the “missing link” for a ...