The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in Nebraska offers trails with historical and natural beauty, showcasing ancient mammal ...

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies ...

Learn how detailed 3D analysis uncovered evidence that upright walking emerged near the very start of the human lineage.

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The research is published in the journal iScience.

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...