Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.

In A Nutshell A key prehistoric fossil loaned out from an Australian museum in 1984 was missing for 40 years before being rediscovered mislabeled in a California university collection. What scientists ...

Scientists in China have identified 15-million-year-old freshwater fish fossils from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, revealing a warmer climate.

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...

Rare fossils discovered in southern China reveals that the earliest creatures with spines — ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Ancient fossils were stolen from Death Valley National Park recently, citing a need to curb vandalism and theft at national parks. Fossil footprints that scientists say are three to five million years ...

Researchers have rediscovered 250 million-year-old fossils, revealing that ancient, crocodile-like "sea-salamanders" ...