For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic island of Flores in Indonesia.

Long before humans arrived in Australia, the continent was home to one of the strangest apex predators ever discovered. The marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex, combined the size of a jaguar with the ...

A team of researchers from University College London and Thai partner institutions has formally named the largest dinosaur ...

Scientists have uncovered what may be the earliest evidence of "right-handedness" in the animal kingdom, dating back more ...

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The technique delivers surprisingly precise ages and could revolutionize how ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

The new findings suggest preference towards the right in animals may date back much, much further than once though.

A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...

For more than 20 years, USF Associate Professor Ryan Carney has pursued paleontology's biggest questions about Archaeopteryx ...

When archaeologists find adults and children buried together in medieval graves, it is often assumed that they were members ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...