Remarkable fossils found in North Greenland have helped researchers solve a 500-million-year-old puzzle surrounding ...

By the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 3000 to 800 BCE), elk had become stylized symbols—possibly representing status, clan ...

The La Venta fossil site in Colombia is home to a rich fossil record, yielding a particularly diverse set of vertebrate ...

Some fossils are truly breathtaking. While paleontologists are used to finding scraps of bones, broken teeth and hazy ...

Learn how the Grand Canyon used to be home to an ancient evolutionary competition that has since left behind a plethora of ...

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.