Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 million years old. Today on the show, Regina G. Barber speaks with ...

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

It was a gray morning on the steppes of central Mongolia when paleontologist Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig spotted something glinting ...

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

A nearly complete fossil of Huayracursor jaguensis, one of the world's oldest dinosaurs, was discovered in Argentina. This ...

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

Researchers say the finding provides new insights into the history of Asia’s rainforests. For the first time, researchers have uncovered fossil remains belonging to a tropical tree species that still ...

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

A fossil hunter in Prince Edward Island has found an animal footprint believed to be the oldest of its type ever discovered, ...

An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

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