Sets of prehistoric three-toed footprints pressed into stone have led paleontologists to discover a new dinosaur in the ...

In June 2024, paleontologists made an extraordinary discovery in Oxfordshire, UK—a gigantic Jurassic pterosaur fossil. This ...

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

A temporary exhibit on Ice Age mammals will be one of the attractions during the 8th Annual Archaeology Day at the Ross County Heritage Center.

According to members of the Argentine National Gendarmerie, a local paleontologist confirmed the fossil was that of an ...

Twelve million years ago, a massive herd of rhinos gathered at a watering hole in what is now northeastern Nebraska. But when ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Footprints of tail-clubbed armored dinosaurs, ankylosaurids, have been discovered for the first time, thanks to fossil ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate ...