Famous fossil hunter Mary Anning admitted she sometimes felt fed up of fossils, saying the word sometimes made her "sick". In ...

LOS ANGELES-- Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near Los Angeles' famous La Brea Tar Pits. Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton and bones of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie and field assistant Ali Kadir look at a hominin fossil specimen found in the Afar Rift ...

Protoceratops was a small but remarkably hardy horned dinosaur that lived in the deserts of Mongolia around 75 million years ago. This video explores its powerful beak, strong jaws, broad feet, and ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

One of the most famous fossil creatures in the world has just received a major glow-up. More than a century and a half after scientists first discovered the remains of Archaeopteryx, researchers have ...

Introduction. Famous fossils, hidden histories -- The old man of La Chapelle: the patriarch of paleo -- Piltdown: a name without a fossil -- The Taung Child: the rise of a folk hero -- Peking Man: a ...

The skull of the Australopithecus nicknamed 'Little Foot'. (Wits University/CC BY SA 4.0) Scientists have reconstructed the ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs – some of the most famous in North America – have just been formally identified as belonging to a “very odd” new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known ...