(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s fossilized skeleton of the Jurassic dinosaur Allosaurus has officially been named the type specimen for the entire species. This distinction ...

Well-preserved fossils of the oldest known species allowed researchers to find new information about the ancient animal.