An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the ...

Millions of years ago, Los Angeles was underwater, a vast prehistoric sea teeming with creatures that largely don't exist ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

Travelers can dig up 66-million-year-old dinosaur fossils in New Jersey or mine for diamonds at an Arizona state park. See ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 ...

Found at the Sima del Elefante site in the Atapuerca Mountains, the fossils make up a partial skull comprised of the left side of the face of an adult hominin. The mineralized bones are the ...

Scientists discovered a 15-million-year-old fish fossil, Ferruaspis brocksi. It has preserved stomach contents and visible ...

Researchers in Spain have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor. The fragments cannot ...

Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up. This caused rapid ...