The newly discovered trilobite may be hundreds of millions of years old, but its use 2,000 years ago as an amulet is the ...

Tiny adult limb bone fossil sheds light on origin of ancient ‘Hobbit’ humans - Findings suggest small-bodied ancient humans may have evolved from another extinct species called Homo erectus.

Bones unearthed 90 years ago in northeastern B.C. have finally been identified as the 95-million-year-old remnants of an ankylosaurian dinosaur — a group of animals known to have tail clubs.

When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a triceratops skeleton that they had started together.

This short documentary chronicles the career of Dr. Fiann Smithwick, whose career was sparked by a chance childhood encounter ...

Fossilized bones discovered on a rocky seashore on England's Isle of Wight are the remains of a meat-eating dinosaur that may be larger than any other known from Europe, a beast that was a cousin ...

Science breakthrough as fossil pushes back evolution timeline by 17 million years Scientists say new studies of fossilized jaw bones show that mammals began to evolve millions of years earlier ...