Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, ...

A 400,000-year-old giant sloth femur was discovered in Argentina, preserving rare muscle marks that reveal how these Ice Age ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have briefly taken to the skies—only to give it up later. By studying rare fossils with ...

Fossils are like nature’s time machines, giving us a peek into life on Earth millions of years ago. The oldest animal fossils tell stories about how complex life began and evolved. Be it simple ...

Two 10-million-year-old whale fossils have been discovered beneath a beach in Portugal, revealing an ancient lost sea.

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight ...

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Recent archaeological excavations at a highway construction site in West Texas have uncovered the fossilized remains of "megafauna," according to a release from the Texas Department ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Here's why Dickinsonia challenges our previously held ...