In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

Fossil crustaceans preserved in Japanese sediments reveal how ancient ocean currents linked Asia and North America during the ...

In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...