Platypuses swam alongside dolphins 25 million years ago, according to an "exciting" new fossil discovery. Paleontologists made the rare find east of the Flinders Ranges in remote outback South ...

What’s all the fuss about fossils? Tap into the scientific study of paleontology, as well as its practical applications for the present and future. Most people perceive paleontology as a frivolous ...

An amateur fossil hunter discovered the first Columbian mammoth tusk ever found in Mississippi. The 7-foot-long, fully intact tusk was tucked into a bluff near a stream that may have swept away the ...

This week, Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has published a wide-ranging review in the Journal of Comparative Neurology ...

TARRAGONA, SPAIN—Gizmodo reports that analysis of the remains of 24 Homo antecessor fossils recently discovered at the Gran Dolina site in Spain revealed cut marks associated with cannibalism. It had ...

NAGOYA, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that the Middle Pleistocene fossils known as “Ushikawa Man,” once suggested to be the oldest known human remains in Japan, are actually bear bones.