An artist's impression of Graecopithecus freybergi. (Velizar Simeonovski) Around 7 million years ago, a little creature ...

Sometimes it's hard to identify exactly what a fossil is from—but wouldn’t it be cool to be able to point at a fossil and ...

Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, ...

Pieces of jawbone and teeth found in Egypt have been identified as a new early ape species named Masripithecus moghraensis, ...

A team of researchers found evidence of footprints on a beach in Scotland. The findings were at the mercy of the beach and vanished after only a few days.

Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.

Last summer, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science announced that it had found a dinosaur fossil … 763 feet below the surface ...

The ancestor of apes was long thought to come from East Africa, but newly discovered fossils in Egypt may prompt a rethink.