Two fossils of singing cicadas, one of which was remarkably well preserved, reveals that the insects dispersed in Europe millions of years earlier than once thought.

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it ...

By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived in southern Africa ...

which scientists initially assigned to an ancient relative of modern humans. But understanding the fossils’ true place in the human story required solidly dating the site, and that was a tricky ...

Its newly described relative is the earliest singing cicada ... the Messel Pit in Germany, a rich fossil site dating to the Eocene epoch (57 million to 36 million years ago).

A remarkably well-preserved fossil found in Spain is the most complete stegosaur skull ever discovered in Europe.

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it ...