Scientists say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile, which was around 12 feet long, lived about 80 million years ago.

In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous fossil ...

An international, multi-university research team, including scientists from Columbus State University, has unearthed a ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with weird new forms. Frustratingly, fossils from later in the Cambrian period are ...

A giraffe's long legs aren't just for height, they save energy by reducing how hard the heart works to pump blood upward ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

(CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in time. Several such fossils exist for Archaeopteryx — the earliest known bird — and now, ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

The first example of Paranthropus was discovered in South Africa by Dr Robert Broom in 1938. Its name means “beside man” and ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

Some paleontologists are dismissing the fossil’s close connection to humans. What many media are ignoring, save the Associated Press, is that other paleontologists are skeptical of Ida’s close link to ...