Researchers have extracted metabolism-related molecules from fossilized animal bones up to 3 million years old. The ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more ...

Paleontologists found hundreds of thousands of dinosaur footprints from 210 million years ago, the Triassic era, near the site of February's Winter Olympics.

Thousands of footprints are discovered near Olympic slopes, which researchers say is one of the most striking fossil ...

About 68-million-years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, a giant fossil egg was laid in Antarctica. The excavated remains ...

In a limestone cave beneath the oil fields of southwestern Oklahoma, scientists have uncovered something that should not have ...

A fossil trackway in China reveals a dinosaur that sprinted like a pro athlete—120 million years before bikes existed.

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and ...

We've ranked the most interesting archaeological finds of all time, ranging from the intricate ruins of Machu Picchu to the ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is more important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued ...