Well-preserved remains found in Germany in 2015 have now been identified as a new pterosaur species, solving a 200-year-old mystery.

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

A new fossil may revolutionize our understanding of bird brain evolution, shedding light on how the intelligence of modern ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a new fossil worm lizard species in Tunisia. Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi is the largest known species of the Amphisbaenia group ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

Scientists have linked a fossilized elephant skull from Kashmir with another from Turkmenistan, identifying them as a distinct species of Palaeoloxodon. These findings could fill gaps in the ...

McGill University students and paleontologists have documented what they say are Saskatchewan's first confirmed centrosaurus ...

Researchers believe that the extinct human species lived in small groups, which might have made them susceptible to ...

Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...

Nearly every bone of the animal has been recovered, and unlike most pterosaur fossils, this specimen is preserved in three ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

Great Abaco Island has a blue hole, Sawmill Sink, filled with fossils from the Ice Age showing the island's ancient history.