In the early 2000s, researchers uncovered primate bones that were approximately seven million years old in Chad’s Djurab ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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

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

Scientists have unearthed in Mongolia the oldest and most complete fossil of a pachycephalosaur, a group of dinosaurs known for their dome-shaped skulls, according to a new study published Wednesday ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new study has ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period. These land-dwelling creatures would later evolve into mammals, but their ...

A newly discovered "hell ant" fossil may be the oldest ant ever found, scientists say. This fossilized insect was unearthed in what is now northeastern Brazil and lived around 113 million years ago, ...

AMES, Iowa – It was late in the year, but Panama was still muggy and rain clouds were closing in. A field crew of student-paleontologists wasn’t having much luck, but Aaron Wood kept chipping away at ...