A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

A family fishing trip in southern Alabama turned into an unexpected scientific discovery when a fossilized ...

A rare 3D snake fossil from Brazil reveals specialized features for burrowing, offering new evidence of how diverse snakes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossils from ancient Australian seas suggest early eukaryotes depended on oxygen and lived mainly on the seafloor. (CREDIT: ...

A fossil from the age of dinosaurs is challenging long-held ideas about snakes. According to scientists, the discovery ...

Spectacular marine fossils tell the story of the long-gone Western Interior Seaway and the planet’s past aquatic life ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient platypus fossils from South Australia reveal a toothed species with a body plan close to today's platypus. (CREDIT: Gen ...

Calculating a fossil's position throughout geological history is a complex process. In paleontology and other disciplines, ...

Around 80 million years ago, a stretch of tropical coastline in what is now northeastern Italy was lashed by monsoon rains ...

Millions of years ago, South Dakota was covered by a vast inland sea. This ancient seaway supported diverse marine life, ...

These new fossils prove that this botanical lineage was established in India millions of years before the arrival of humans.

Scientists used tooth proteins to investigate Homo naledi fossils and found a surprising absence of male markers in a South ...