A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear ...

In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry ...

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...

The Texas Science and Natural History Museum has unveiled a major upgrade to its basement exhibit, transforming it into an ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...