The first Paranthropus fossil identified in Ethiopia’s Afar region challenges assumptions about this ancient hominin’s geographic limits.

The earliest animals may have evolved hundreds of millions of years before their first unmistakable fossils appear in the ...

Unlike most modern mammals, which get just two sets of teeth in their lifetime, an ancient species from the Cretaceous, found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Field photos of the Khugenetsavkhlant badlands in the Eastern Gobi Desert of Mongolia, which is where Tamirkhan balcarceli was ...

A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 ...

Scientists thought Lizzie was an early reptile for more than 30 years. But advanced X-ray scans of the 345-million-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Emily Mitchell at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada. Her research suggests clone-based reproduction kept early animals ...

Archaeologists identified hominin fossils in South Africa, including a 2-million-year-old adult Homo erectus fossil.

New research from the University of St Andrews has created the largest combined study of bat genomes and fossils ever ...

Paleoenvironmental reconstruction harnesses the physical, chemical and biological signatures preserved within fossil assemblages to infer ancient climates, landscapes and ecosystems. By integrating ...

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

A small fossil from the windswept Gobi Desert is forcing scientists to rethink a long chapter in the story of mammal evolution. For decades, researchers believed a group of ancient mammals called ...