For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

They’re little time capsules, often holding stories so bizarre they make modern nature look boring. Some fossils reveal just how weirdly life used to work, while others pop up in the most unexpected ...

Where did our species first emerge?This sparked a contentious debate about whether our species originally emerged outside of Africa, before returning there.

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

Did you know there are ancient fossils from millions of years ago hidden in the floor panels of the gift shop of a popular D.C. monument? In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax ...

Uniquely is a Merced Sun-Star series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Merced area so special. The Columbian mammoth once roamed through parts ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...