Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore how fossils are made, check out these gummy worms and bread fossils.

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

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd McDowell walked her two petite leashed dogs on a narrow clay path a few feet ...

For over 300 million years, the ammonites ruled the prehistoric seas. Finding an ammonite fossil isn’t particularly rare (they can be unearthed all over the world) but they’re still thrilling to ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...