A remote Florida river turned into a fossil hunting jackpot when the bank started giving up Ice Age clues. The group found turtle shell, gator material, gar scales, and other mineralized bones before ...

The 4 footprints in a newly discovered T. rex trackway span about 23 feet (7 meters) in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. Image via Tyler Lyson/ Denver Museum of Nature & Science. A Colorado ...

A newly identified 240-million-year-old animal from Tanzania is forcing scientists to rethink the early dinosaur timeline. Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda belongs to a group previously known only from ...

Ask any zoogoer and they will tell you that capybaras are adorable. Ask a scientist specializing on the rodents, which resemble oversized guinea pigs, and they will tell you they are obligate ...

In 2010, researchers who had extracted DNA from an ancient finger bone revealed that it belonged to a previously unknown human relative. The fossil, recovered from Denisova Cave in Siberia, came from ...

Somewhere in a small museum in Montreal, on a shelf funded entirely by community donations, a piece of rock had been holding onto the tube feet of a sea creature that died before dinosaurs, before ...

A fossilized Pacific mastodon tooth that scientists say is at least 10,000 years old and in “immaculate condition” was discovered recently in a creek bed in California, according to local officials.

A team of Griffith University archaeologists has uncovered evidence that humans were using mind-altering substances much earlier than previously supposed. Led by Professor Adam Brumm from Griffith's ...

Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed fossilized remains that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct hominins, revealing new details about their long-lost way ...

A long-lost cave in southwestern China has offered archaeologists their first real glimpse of Denisovan culture. Denisovans were a sister species of modern humans and lived across Asia an estimated ...

For 36 days a man worked with unshakable patience molding mud and stone into a breathtaking Dragon King sculpture that curls around a handmade villa like a guardian of the forest watching over its ...