“It blew all of our minds," his mother said of the prehistoric find ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

“This study demonstrates that eggshell biocalcite from non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and other egg-laying vertebrates has the potential to serve as a reliable geochronometer in Mesozoic and Cenozoic ...

LANSING — When it comes to fossils, Michigan missed out on Tyrannosaurus rex and its associates, but the Mitten State came out just fine with its famous Petoskey stones and mastodons. The Petoskey ...

You might want to wash your hands the next time you check out an unusually shiny rock. Turns out fossilized poop — called coprolites — isn’t the only disgusting thing dinosaurs left behind for modern ...

The summit pyramid of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, is built from the remains of creatures that lived on an ...

Leading edge technology has uncovered secrets about a world-renowned fossil hoard that could offer vital clues about early life on Earth. Researchers who analyzed the 400 million-year-old cache, found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several fossils with possible cut marks from Grăunceanu, Romania. Briana Pobiner Looking again through the magnifying lens at the ...

Queensland Museum Network paleontologists have excavated Australia’s first head and associated body of a 100-million-year-old long-necked marine reptile. Paleontologists are calling the fossil found ...

Gastroliths are “stomach stones or gizzard stones” found in the digestive tract of some prehistoric animals that do not chew their food. Dinosaur National Monument photo You might want to wash your ...