Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Scientists have discovered an ancient skull in China, like no other they've seen before. The 300,000-year-old child skull was ...

Explore the intriguing tale of the Piltdown Man, archaeology's greatest hoax, and its lasting impact on scientific discovery.

Scientists have unveiled a previously unknown tyrannosaur species that fundamentally changes our understanding of how the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex evolved. The newly identified dinosaur, named ...

Fossil antelope teeth reveal stable, mixed habitats in the Cradle.Sudden woodland-to-grassland shift 1.7M yrs ago is ...

In 2002, a research team discovered one of the oldest human ancestors ever, called Sahelanthropus. For over twenty years, ...

It’s spooky season! So we asked one local historian to tell us where the bones lie — specifically skulls. Adam Selzer is an ...

A new pachycephalosaur, officially named Zavacephale rinpoche, was described in the journal Nature. The word rinpoche is ...

Archaeologists find evidence of the first culture in China to carve human skulls and bones into tools roughly 5,000 years ago ...

Paleontologists have finally solved the mystery behind an elusive “sword dragon” skeleton found on the U.K.’s Jurassic Coast.

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...