Archaeological evidence confirms a long history of human movement from the southeastern coast of the Chinese mainland to the ...

Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.

From prehistoric predators to forgotten giants, some extinct species still have what it takes.

Long before the first dinosaur hatched, Earth's ancient life was already thriving. There were bizarre sea creatures and lumbering plant-eaters that ruled prehistoric landscapes for hundreds of ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

While on a mission to extract dinosaur DNA from the three largest prehistoric creatures of land, sea, and sky, the de facto ...