Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their ...

Unique soil makes this New Jersey quarry a prehistoric fossil hotspot.

An eight-armed, pig-snouted brittle star found in the depths of the South Pacific has roots reaching back to the days of the ...

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An ASU research team has discovered 13 ancient human teeth in Ethiopia, dating back to 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago, that appear to be different from any previously known species. According to ...

The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938. Since then, dozens of examples have been found, but ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Scientists have unearthed in Mongolia the oldest and most complete fossil of a pachycephalosaur, a group of dinosaurs known for their dome-shaped skulls, according to a new study published Wednesday ...

Ernesto BENAVIDES/AFP/AFP Peruvian paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled the 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric porpoise found near the country's Pacific coast. The fossil, which measures 3.5 ...