What if everything we thought we knew about our origin was wrong? In 2017, discoveries in Morocco rocked the world, revealing ...

Everything old is new again: These paleontological discoveries of 2025 — from tiny dinosaurs to zombifying fungi — opened up brand-new insights into the distant past. Earth resonated with the song of ...

An artistic rendering of an evening approximately 252 million years ago during the late Permian in the Luangwa Basin of Zambia. The scene includes several saber-toothed gorgonopsians and beaked ...

Surprising fossil finds in a Moroccan quarry reveal 773,000-year-old hominin specimens that are close to the ancestor of modern humans. Read the paper: Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess. Now, a team of ...

CHARLOTTETOWN — An amateur fossil hunter in Prince Edward Island has found an animal footprint believed to be the oldest of its type ever discovered — at an estimated 290 million years old. Patrick ...

Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the research group combined ...

A sculpture prepared by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County shows what scientists believe the dinosaur Augustynolophus looked like. The only two specimens ever found of the dinosaur were ...