We could learn something from them.

After nearly 4 million years of anonymity, the most complete skeleton of an ancient human relative ever found finally has a face (or more precisely, facial bones).

Morocco: Ancient Fossils Shed Light On A Key Period In Human Evolution. Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered ...

See how trees rose, endured and survived across 500 million years, evolving superpowers and weaponry; and shaping how we grip, stand, sleep, live.

Townsville’s Billabong Sanctuary will become home to some of Australia’s most vulnerable animals after thanks to a $300,000 ...

A 58,000-hectare Australian expanse containing some of the world's oldest evidence of animal life could be included on the ...

Recently-revealed notebooks belonging to a late paleontologist contain the missing information needed to help researchers finish their study of a remarkable fossil discovered nearly three decades ago.

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

"Trey," a Triceratops skeleton that has been on exhibition for nearly 30 years, could fetch up to $5.5 million at a Joopiter ...