After a career spent largely in the shadows, Field Museum ornithologist Dave Willard is enjoying a moment in the spotlight ...

A fossil reveals the existence of Athenar bermani, a new sauropod that redefines the family tree of Utah's giants.

The prints, likely left by herds of migrating theropods 70 million years ago, make the Carreras Pampa tracksite the largest ...

Paleontologists counted the record-setting tracks and uncovered evidence of dinosaurs swimming and dragging their tails along ...

Paleontologists have made a discovery that can change how we understand dinosaurs. Despite centuries of research into ancient ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

WINONA, Minn. — It was a dinosaur that once roamed the Earth 66 million years ago, and now a big piece of it sits housed in a ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet — and it’s already reshaping scientists’ understanding of ...

A new study has revealed South America’s wetlands have been home to 5.2m-long anacondas for more than 12 million ...

Hungarian and Romanian palaeontologists have discovered a huge collection of vertebrate fossils at Hațeg Basin in Romania's historic Transylvania region. The bonebed – which has been named the K2 site ...