This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

Dwelling around 167 million years ago, the chimeric reptile was discovered along with 70 other prehistoric species.

A museum display of the giant crocodile Deinosuchus schwimmeri showcases a 30-foot-long apex predator from the Cretaceous ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...

A research team led by Prof. Zhu Min—a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The ...

A 410-million-year-old lungfish fossil from China reveals a key link, offering new insight into how early vertebrates ...

A tiny spider frozen in 100-million-year-old amber is changing what scientists thought they knew about spider evolution. This ...