Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

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

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

About 14,400 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal - meat from a woolly rhinoceros - shortly before dying on ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Researchers have extracted DNA and recovered the rhino's genome from a chunk of undigested meat from the stomach contents ...

Indian researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of sauropod dinosaurs dating back to about 100 million years from an area around West Khasi Hills district of the north eastern state of ...

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise ...