This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

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

Dwelling around 167 million years ago, the chimeric reptile was discovered along with 70 other prehistoric species.

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

A museum display of the giant crocodile Deinosuchus schwimmeri showcases a 30-foot-long apex predator from the Cretaceous ...

Meditate at a Buddhist temple or flip through first-edition books at these little-known spots in Houston's suburbs.

A rare fossil from Thailand identifies a 25-foot spinosaurid that lived along river systems 125 million years ago.

A tiny spider frozen in 100-million-year-old amber is changing what scientists thought they knew about spider evolution. This ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage.