Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific community's best guess for the likely path of early human migration. While walking ...

A fossil reveals the existence of Athenar bermani, a new sauropod that redefines the family tree of Utah's giants.

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

The Harbin cranium, known as Dragon Man, is one of the most complete ancient skulls ever found and may represent a newly ...

A ferocious relative of the crocodile that hunted dinosaurs has been discovered, a forgotten superpredator from the ...

Archaeologists are searching for a person who stole a human skull from an 1,700-year-old burial site near Kanab, Utah. Officials call the ...

These findings line up with the fossil record. More than 90 percent of pygmy elephant remains are found within a narrow ...