Kenya’s Homa peninsula is home to several artifacts of early humanity, most notably the remains of Lucy, a being with mixed ...

A mere 90 million years ago, Antarctica was a radically different place. Instead of being a polar desert characterized by ...

Four giant herbivores and one predator walked across the same spot in modern-day England. “It’s the closest we’ll get to a time machine,” said one of the lead excavators.

Hundreds of perforated Cambrian shells reveal distinctive predator-prey dynamics in the ocean 517 million years ago.

Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan — or "Valley of the Whales" — is famous for its abundance of fossils from the Eocene epoch.

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million ...

T he oldest equatorial dinosaur in the world, and North America's oldest dinosaur, has been described in a new study. Dating ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...

These footprints offer an extraordinary window into the lives of dinosaurs,” one micropaleontology professor said.

Giant tracks discovered underground have offered an "extraordinary window" into the lives of the giants that roamed the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago.

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters) deep ...