For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired ...

A newly classified Paranthropus species, P. capensis, has been identified from a 1.4 million-year-old jawbone.

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...