© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed in Morocco could help us solve this enigma. A discovery in Morocco The 21 ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

A dinosaur was discovered beneath the parking lot at the monument’s most-visited attraction. It’s the first excavation in ...

For the first time in over 100 years, fossils have been excavated from the parking lot of the Quarry Exhibit Hall at Dinosaur ...

A pair of fossilized, eel-like fish found just south of Glasgow has provided what scientists are calling the earliest known ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Three boys wandering the North Dakota badlands discovered a T. rex fossil two years ago, and now a museum is working to reveal it. In July 2022, two young brothers, ages 7 and 10, were hiking through ...

Workers at Dinosaur National Monument uncovered a long-necked dinosaur fossil during asphalt removal.

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

The Utah Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently approved the construction of a highway in Washington County. While many ...