Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...

Jaw fossils found in northern Greece have been cited in claims that human evolution began in Europe rather than Africa. This ...

Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.

Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Long before paleontology, ancient civilizations stumbled upon massive bones buried in the earth. With no science to explain them, these fossils became the foundation for terrifying legends and ...

The Paleontological Research Institution may face closure by the end of the year if it cannot pay off a $3 million mortgage, ...

Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back more than 200 million years have been found on a rock face in the Italian Alps, ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

A new study of ancient fossils found that millions of years ago these creatures grew to more than a whopping 5 metres in length.

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...