Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

A towering 26-foot-tall fossil, first discovered in Scotland, has been confirmed by scientists as a completely new form of ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

Workers at Dinosaur National Monument uncovered a long-necked dinosaur fossil during asphalt removal.

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

A dinosaur was discovered beneath the parking lot at the monument’s most-visited attraction. It’s the first excavation in ...