Fossils

The face of the oldest known species of Australopithecus looks a bit like the famous "Lucy" and a bit like far older hominins.

It was the largest parrot that ever lived, and is the only known giant parrot in the world.

An ancient lizard was a flying dinosaur's last meal.

These fossils could show the life-forms that gave Earth its earliest whiffs of oxygen, but not everyone is convinced.

Miners digging for gemstones found something entirely different last month; the fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster.

The brawny bird lived alongside humans, who may have hunted the giant.

Newly hatched pterosaurs may have been more independent than once thought.

Paleontologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Loch Ness Monster look-alike in freezing Antarctica. And just like the legendary Nessie, it wasn't the runt of the litter.

Gemstones are precious, especially when they come filled with dinosaur bones.

Baby fish swam in schools 50 million years ago, according to this remarkable fossil held in a Japanese museum.

Fossil pollen pinpointed the earliest evidence of cannabis and its cultivation.

A crocodile-like beast the length of a Volkswagen Beetle terrorized prey in the late Triassic oceans about 210 million years ago, a new study finds.

This 92-million-year-old tyrannosaur was so small, it was only slightly larger than the skull of its mighty relative, Tyrannosaurus rex.

This is the first evidence of Denisovans living on the Tibetan Plateau.

Exceptional preservation led to the discovery of a new millipede suborder.

An ancient crab that lived during the dinosaur age was so strange, paleontologists are calling it the platypus of the crab world.