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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New evidence suggests some fossils as the oldest known sign of life on Earth, and scientists may have a way to speed up the ...

Fossils can provide clues to the conditions that ancient species lived in, like what their environments felt like, how deep ...

Paleontologists spent decades trying to explain "Devil's corkscrews," the bizarre spiral-shaped fossils found in Wyoming and ...

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has made the behind-the-scenes inventory of rare fossils and other ancient artifacts available for public viewing for the first time.

In a startling flip-flop on our perspectives on ancient civilisations, scientists have discovered baby dinosaur fossils ...