As the largest rodent ever in North America, the giant beaver also would have existed with the first people ever to settle in ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting ...

The fossils — which may date back to 1.4 million years — were nicknamed “Pink” in honor of iconic rock band Pink Floyd.

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...

Paleontologists at Mammoth Cave National Park have unearthed an ancient shark species previously unknown to science.

The skeleton of an extinct cave bear is to be sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ natural history and taxidermy sale next month. Dating from the late Pleistocene era, the species went extinct around 24,000 ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery sheds new light on Paranthropus robustus, revealing surprising insights into early human ...