Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico about 75 million ...

Java Man, the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, has returned to Indonesia after over a century in the Netherlands. This ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

While hiking with his father through Alberta’s Horseshoe Canyon, 12-year-oldNathan Hrushkin stumbled upon a fossil jutting ...

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

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...