In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

Learn how detailed 3D analysis uncovered evidence that upright walking emerged near the very start of the human lineage.

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In 2003, archaeologists excavating inside Liang Bua, a cave ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...

Ever since the first fossil was pulled from the sandstone formation at Hell Creek, Montana, at the turn of the last century, the Tyrannosaurus Rex has reigned supreme as the ultimate apex predator. In ...