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

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

Dwelling around 167 million years ago, the chimeric reptile was discovered along with 70 other prehistoric species.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...

A tiny spider frozen in 100-million-year-old amber is changing what scientists thought they knew about spider evolution. This ...

A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The ...

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A Canadian teacher out for a walk stumbled upon a rare fossil that appears to date back to before dinosaurs walked the Earth. Lisa Cormier, a teacher on Prince Edward Island, was walking in Cape ...