About 50 million years ago, a small bird waded along a lakeshore in what today is central Oregon. A worm wriggled at its feet. The bird appeared to probe the silty earth with its beak, once, twice, ...

In a rocky corner of southeastern China, a trail of fossilized footprints has revealed a predator so large it would have ...

Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited ...

A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years on a slab of rock displayed at a high school in Biloela, Australia, according to a new study. While researchers knew the ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in Australia ...

TORO TORO, Bolivia (AP) — Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their ...

BOURNEMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered evidence of ancient humans engaged in a deadly face-off with a giant sloth, showing for the first time how our ancestors might have tackled ...

Artwork depicting the Coconino desert environment and two primitive tetrapods, based on the occurrence of Ichniotherium from Grand Canyon National Park. Credit: Voltaire Paes Neto Artwork depicting ...