Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

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

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In 2003, archaeologists excavating inside Liang Bua, a cave ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

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

Ever since the first fossil was pulled from the sandstone formation at Hell Creek, Montana, at the turn of the last century, the Tyrannosaurus Rex has reigned supreme as the ultimate apex predator. In ...

SCOTLAND (CNN Newsource/WKRC) - More fossils related to a 240-million-year-old "dragon" have been discovered that will help the National Museums Scotland (NMS) to understand the animal's shape. The ...

The next big Cascadia earthquake will be devastating for the Pacific Northwest—especially the coast. In addition to the shaking of the earthquake, the land will instantly drop in elevation. Then there ...