Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Scientists have discovered a fossil that appears to belong to an unknown species. Found in a remote location, this fossil ...

On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

The species, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, belongs to a group of two-legged dinosaurs called therizinosaurs that lived in ...

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

With two-fingered hands and long "nasty" claws, the Duonychus tsogtbaatari is certainly a strange sight. Fossils of this ...

Australian scientists have discovered an ancient freshwater fish fossil with its stomach contents remarkably preserved. In a ...