Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne ...

We went fossil hunting in Georgia and found something unbelievable. These fossils date back between 400 and 500 million years ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relative, a dome-headed ...

Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones ...

Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus ...

The Haţeg Basin in western Romania holds one of the greatest fossil assemblages from the Late Cretaceous period, and it ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the oldest known dinosaur footprints from Chile and the western margin of the ancient ...

Michigan is a state well-known for both gorgeous lake views and great places to play a round of golf, and here's five ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest active ranger when she retired at age 100, has died. She played a key ...