A nearly complete skeleton from South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, known as Little Foot, may represent a distinct branch of the human family tree that lacks a valid scientific name. A taxonomic study ...

When you hear the word "dinosaur," the first thing that might spring to mind is a hulking skeleton like Sue the T rex in Chicago's Field Museum or Sophie the Stegosaurus at the Natural History Museum ...

A fossilised footprint of a dinosaur at Phu Faek national park, Thailand. dome napat/Shutterstock However, despite their iconic status as museum centerpieces, skeletons are not the most common type of ...