A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

Human history features a pivotal moment when four-legged beings stood upright on two legs. Scholars regard this shift as the ...

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

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In 2003, archaeologists excavating inside Liang Bua, a cave ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

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

Ever since the first fossil was pulled from the sandstone formation at Hell Creek, Montana, at the turn of the last century, the Tyrannosaurus Rex has reigned supreme as the ultimate apex predator. In ...

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname ...

The next big Cascadia earthquake will be devastating for the Pacific Northwest—especially the coast. In addition to the shaking of the earthquake, the land will instantly drop in elevation. Then there ...