Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Roughly 190 million years ago, long before ice sheets blanketed the southernmost continent, a massive plant-eating dinosaur lumbered through what is now Antarctica. Its fossilized remains, buried deep ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

And as 2025 comes to a close, Fossil CEO Franco Fogliato is showing progress. The stock price recently hit its highest point ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

It does not look dramatic at first glance. Just a rounded fossil pulled from dry ground in central India, one more object ...