After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

The discovery of a tiny foot bone millions of years old reveals Aotearoa New Zealand was once home to a songbird species with ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

October 14th is National Fossil Day. And while fossils are often associated with a big archaeological dig or a faraway discovery, the truth is that fossils can be found where you least expect them.

New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in ...

Most of our knowledge of New Zealand's prehistoric bird diversity comes from long-lost species with bones large enough to be ...