A nearly complete skeleton from South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, known as Little Foot, may represent a distinct branch of the human family tree that lacks a valid scientific name. A taxonomic study ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research. The Permian–Triassic ...

Introduction. Famous fossils, hidden histories -- The old man of La Chapelle: the patriarch of paleo -- Piltdown: a name without a fossil -- The Taung Child: the rise of a folk hero -- Peking Man: a ...

A Diplodocus fossil in Spain shows the famous dinosaur lived beyond North America during the Late Jurassic period.

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs – some of the most famous in North America – have just been formally identified as belonging to a “very odd” new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of researchers working in China's Hunan province has unearthed more than 50,000 fossil specimens from one small quarry, ...

The sail-backed predator Dimetrodon is one of the most iconic animals of the early Permian—long before dinosaurs dominated Earth. Most known species of this early relative of mammals reached large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A famous 300-million-year-old "octopus" fossil was actually a nautiloid, hidden by decay before fossilization. (CREDIT: Isabelle ...

A University of Regina research team made some key discoveries about how dinosaurs may have healed from injuries when they examined the preserved blood vessel structures inside a rib bone from Scotty, ...

Two individuals of Traskasaura sandrae hunt the ammonite Pachydiscus in the northern Pacific during the Late Cretaceous. Traskasaura sandrae, named today in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, was ...