Once in a while, a fossil preserves behavior - and in 1923, a small feathered theropod from Mongolia seemed to be caught red-handed over a clutch of eggs, earning the name Oviraptor, the “egg thief.” ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Declassifying decades of unidentified aerial phenomenon records is turning out to be far slower and more complicated than a ...

A Harvard physicist who once accepted evolution without question says a surprising encounter with faith forced him to rethink ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

The caution kept the mammoth extinction story intact, but it turned the bones into a new kind of mystery. A run of ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

For more than a decade, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been climbing a Martian mountain, reading the planet’s ancient history layer by layer. Now, a discovery of web-like rock for ...