Over 100 rhinos died at the same time because of a volcanic eruption in prehistoric Nebraska. It turns out they were all part ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

Researchers have precisely dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to 7-10 million years ago using a new ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

A jawbone fossil from a previously unknown hominin was ... and Penghu 1 was phylogenetically close. Tooth enamel revealed that Penghu 1 came from a male individual, and both Penghu 1 and Xiahe ...

The western Kansas zoo confirmed that Mona, a domesticated Bacrtrian camel, died at the age of 29. The zoo said the median life expectancy for Bacterian camels is a little under 18 years.

Building off work published late last year in ACS Macro Letters, a team at King’s College London is developing methods for lab-grown replacement teeth and fillings made from human cells.

In a groundbreaking discovery, paleontologists unearthed a 93-million-year-old crocodile fossil in Queensland, Australia. The ...

When one of us, Virgil Drăgușin, asked geochemist Jon Woodhead to use U-Pb dating to estimate the age of the Grăunceanu fossils based on several small tooth fragments, he was reluctant.

Fossils can tell scientists what extinct animals looked like and what their environment was like. But what about their diet?