The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

A fossil smaller than a human fingernail has revealed a complete ancient brain, turning a speck of stone into a detailed map ...

A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The ...

Some NFL offensive linemen were gifted golf carts, watches, suitcases and other luxury items this Christmas — but Bengals QB ...