For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...

Deep in ancient rock, researchers have uncovered a creature so well preserved that its brain and internal organs are still ...

Scientists debate mosquito origins as fossil evidence and genomic studies clash, revealing new insights into their ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In 2003, archaeologists excavating inside Liang Bua, a cave ...

WINONA, Minn. (KTTC) – A team of Winona State University faculty and alumni discovered a massive 66-million-year-old fossil ...

While other species downsized and died out across millennia the anaconda remains an Amazon giant. The Green Anaconda is the ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Ever since the first fossil was pulled from the sandstone formation at Hell Creek, Montana, at the turn of the last century, the Tyrannosaurus Rex has reigned supreme as the ultimate apex predator. In ...

They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms that created these fossils possessed magnetoreception.