A remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil offers fresh clues about early bird flight. This ancient creature, a link between dinosaurs ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

The Chicago Field Museum's Pokémon Fossil exhibit tickets went live, overwhelming the website with thousands in queue.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Limestone cliffs and cave systems hold clues to a prehistoric ocean.

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature ...

“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.