Claudia Steffensen was hiking in the Italian Alps last summer when she stepped on a rock that caught her eye. "It seemed more ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

The discovery in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in Lombardy dates back 280 million years to the Permian period, the age ...

At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...

The discovery in Patagonia shows that frogs have had a tadpole stage for at least 160 million years. Here’s how the ancient frogs compare to those of today.

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

While they didn’t uncover any dinos, they instead stumbled upon the oldest known fossil tadpole. “The paleontologists found hundreds of adult specimens of the basal ghost frog, the ancestor of ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that ...

Each year the Paleotological Society of Austin hosts Fossil Fest in Round Rock, Texas. This year will be the 33rd annual ...

Rock art found in South Africa, and painted two centuries ago, represents how the San people imagined extinct animals that they found in fossil form. This early rendering of these fossils could relate ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.