A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of miles away.

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

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Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

Our early human ancestor was capable of running, if slowly, a new study finds.

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a crocodile ancestor.

In the Cretaceous period, a shark or another kind of fish found sea lilies less than digestible. What you might expect followed.

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees.

It’s not causing panic! in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk discovery in Britain is a source of excitement for some scientists.