Paleontologists are marveling over a unique fossil of a specimen that pre-dated the dinosaurs, according to new research.

Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day.

Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the complicated legacy of the Taung child skull, 100 years since its discovery.

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather represents a "two-for-the-price-of one" discovery: the fossil itself, and the first ...

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...