A 13-million-year-old species of turtle has been discovered after its fossil sat in a display case at an NT museum for ...

Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million ...

Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

A new fossil discovery sheds new light on a 47-million-year-old "alien plant" species that is the only example ever found of ...

In 2024, scientists described and named a staggering 190 new species, including a vegetarian piranha and a rat confined to a ...

Pterosaurs evolved active flight over 230 million years ago. The discovery of Melkamter pateko in Argentina suggests ...

New research on mosasaurs, based on new technologies and fossil discoveries, sheds light on their evolution, feeding habits, ...

Findings point to lack of clarity on how diverse ecosystems were before they were lost to time, researchers say ...

A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most mysterious fossils ever found. A ...