The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

Introduction. Famous fossils, hidden histories -- The old man of La Chapelle: the patriarch of paleo -- Piltdown: a name without a fossil -- The Taung Child: the rise of a folk hero -- Peking Man: a ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen, ...

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 ...

It was long believed that ceratopsians (horned and beaked dinosaurs such as the famous triceratops) did not live in Europe, due to the lack of fossils discovered. The results of recent research ...

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Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. — ScottRobertAnselmo — CC BY-SA 3.0 Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural ...

Crystals hidden inside dinosaur eggs at a famous fossil site are giving scientists a chance to do something that’s long proven elusive: figure out how old the ancient nests really are. Finding these ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

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 ...