On October 27, at Sotheby’s auction house in New York, the United States, six bidders competed for 12 minutes over the ...

A stunning fossil owl from Germany that has its last meal preserved in its stomach helped researchers to narrow down the time ...

A chance discovery by an Acadiana landowner uncovered mammoth remains that researchers say could reveal new clues about ...

Soft tissues like blood generally break down relatively quickly after death. Environmental factors can also produce red blood ...

Paleontologists regularly discover fossilized dinosaur bones, but they sometimes locate footprints and prehistoric shells. On ...

Nov. 5, 2026 A groundbreaking discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution, revealing that an ancient human species once thought to be an evolutionary dead end may have left genetic traces in ...

A creek and trees now cover the land at Coon Creek Science Center, but millions of years ago, an ocean covered the area.

Was it a sea-lamander? Scientists have discovered the first-ever fossil evidence of sea-dwelling amphibians, potentially ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa. In contrast, our ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

The 18-million-year-old jawbone is challenging a long-held theory about where the distant ancestors of humans and other ...

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