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

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

Scientists in eastern China uncovered dinosaur eggs packed with giant crystals, revealing unusual fossilization processes and new clues about prehistoric development.

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

A fossilized vulture feather reveals how volcanic ash can turn fragile tissues into stone with astonishing detail.

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

The project was first touted in 2017 as a roughly $2 billion “nation-building” pumped-hydro scheme, later revised to $5.9 ...

Tardigrades are survivors. For more than 500 million years, the microscopic “water bears” have spread all over the planet and endured some of the harshest conditions Earth has to offer. Now a new ...

A major international study published in the peer-reviewed journal ‘PeerJ’ has officially named a new species of ancient marine mammal discovered in Qatar: Salwasiren qatarensis. The discovery, led by ...

From excavating an internationally prized dig site to creating educational art that truly comes alive, the Indianapolis Children’s Museum paleoartist and fossil preparator offers a look at how he ...