The Dinosaur National Monument, which is located on the border between Colorado and Utah, was last excavated in 1924.

On Friday, paleontologists and crews removed dinosaur fossils from a parking lot construction site in Dinosaur National ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

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

Modern rock wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas, but fossils show they need to travel.

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

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

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

Imagine you’re walking to work when you unwittingly make a massive contribution to science. That was the experience for a Southern California science teacher who discovered a never-before-seen whale ...

One of Colorado's most astonishing and coincidental fossil discoveries was found earlier this year, right beneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, museum officials announced ...

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution.