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 ...

Such treasures were presented to the world in 2024 that have changed the way we see life on Earth, both in the evolution of ...

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

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

BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as ...

Another of 2024's mysterious plant discoveries made by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was a species of rattan ...

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most notable findings ...

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