A team led by Queen Mary University of London researchers found it's actually very difficult to identify differences between ...

Clarence Edwin 'Ed' Asher, the former mayor of Fossil, was 72-years-old when he went missing during a crabbing trip in ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized ...

Bones thought to be world's youngest mammoths for 70 years turn out to be whales. DNA reveals shocking truth about Alaska ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

A mass extinction created the ecological conditions that set the stage for a dramatic shift in marine life.

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.