Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...

During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before the appearance of feathered dinosaurs ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

The lab, founded in the late 1980s by Ethiopia’s first paleoanthropologist, Berhane Asfaw, was set up to prevent the export ...

A student’s fossil discovery on a UK beach has revealed a new species of prehistoric mammal, reshaping ideas about early ...

A jogger was left ‘jumping for joy’ after finding a rare 80,000-year-old baby mammoth tooth while out on a beach morning run. Lucy Parkes, who regularly hunts for fossils along the beach between ...

Key points The 3.2-million-year-old Lucy fossils offer invaluable wisdom today. The Primate Perspective shows us who and what we really are. Evidence-based thinking about humankind’s origin and ...

When Lucy was discovered, she was “singular,” Sponheimer says. But subsequent research has uncovered hundreds of fossils from Australopithecus afarensis as well as other distinct hominin species and ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, about the 50th anniversary of his biggest discovery, Lucy, an early human ancestor.