In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Dragon legends appear in cultures separated by vast distances, raising questions about their possible origins. Some ...

In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry ...

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...

Mike Trask’s Comox Valley-based discovery would forever change paleontology in B.C. and would inspire a flood of amateur paleontologists, many of whom would go on to make hundreds of new discoveries ...