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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The team more closely examined the bones of the specimen now named Ahshiselsaurus wimani and compared them with bones of ...

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