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

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa.

Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...

Metabolism quietly governs every living body. It shapes how organisms grow, reproduce, heal, and age. Because metabolism links closely to body size, temperature, and diet, it also sets limits on how ...

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 ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how gigantic animals during the Miocene were replaced by ...

The prehistoric animal kingdom was a riot of colors, from iridescent-feathered dinosaurs to jet-black ink excreted by Jurassic squid relatives. Like modern-day animals, ancient species' hues helped ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname ...