Since Shiyan sits on a treasure trove of relics related to their origins, evolution and development of mankind, experts say ...

Early Cambrian fossils reveal how a small, shelled animal evolved to deal with attacks from a predator. The finds confirm a popular hypothesis, until now lacking in clear evidence, about what drove ...

The palm-sized animal was uncovered in Hualongdong cave, where scientists are studying the humans who lived there 30,000 ...

Discover Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old worm-like fossil, offering the first Precambrian evidence of Ecdysozoa ...

Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan — or "Valley of the Whales" — is famous for its abundance of fossils from the Eocene epoch.

About 150 mastodon fossils have been found to date across New York, about a third of which found in Orange County. CORRECTION: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified a mastodon as ...

The viewing at the aptly named Dinosaur Parlour exhibition hall, marked the completion of the excavation of the first ...

A 13-million-year-old species of turtle has been discovered after its fossil sat in a display case at an NT museum for ...

BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as ...

At least five trackways were found in Oxfordshire, revealing a dynamic environment from about 166 million years ago.

Scientists in China have just dug up 500-million-year-old embryos that will help us understand the developmental biology of ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur called Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus in Kyrgyzstan, the first Jurassic theropod ...