Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are ...

Paleontologists have uncovered a stunning array of dinosaur footprints in Sichuan, China, providing fresh insights into the ancient creatures that roamed the Earth over 200 million years ago.

An ultra-rare dinosaur skeleton is being auctioned in London, sparking debate about the ethics of selling specimens with ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their claws even into solid rock ...

A new dome-headed dinosaur speices found in Montana, Brontotholus harmoni, reveals unexpected clues about their evolution.

A newly examined Neanderthal skull, once thought to confirm cold-climate adaptations, has challenged a century-old assumption ...

Scientists have confirmed that Nanotyrannus was a mature species, not a young T. rex. A microscopic look at its hyoid bone ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...