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

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

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

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

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

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

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 ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...