The display includes a lab in which visitors can interact with researchers.

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of ...

Routine parking lot construction at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

For much of the twentieth century, a prevailing view in marine biology held that most major marine groups originated in ...

The image of kangaroos hopping their way across the Australian outback is iconic – and it turns out it might have been an ...

The Dinosaur National Monument, which is located on the border between Colorado and Utah, was last excavated in 1924.

The big picture: Park staff identified the fossils on Sept. 16 during parking lot construction near the Quarry Exhibit Hall ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

Learn more about ancient giant kangaroos and the previous research claiming they were too heavy to hop. A new study finds ...