A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Millions of years ago, England was a much different place than it is today. In the Late Eocene, England was rich with ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa.

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

Writing about 100 years after the death of the Roman emperor Augustus, the historian Suetonius noted the leader’s fascination with fossils. Ruling from 63 B.C.E. to 14 C.E. the emperor prominently ...

Dominican amber preserves a 16-million-year-old ant queen, marking the first fossil evidence of Hypoponera in the Americas.

A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque will open a new exhibit in a few weeks, showcasing 600 fossils from a time before dinosaurs. The display will highlight various ...