A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...

What if humans left their first mark on the Americas earlier than we think? An anthropologist said footprints uncovered here ...

Almost all bones will not be preserved, and there’s nothing special about the finger bone in terms of how hard it is. It just got lucky,” said H ...

A PETRIFIED BODY FOUND. Share full article. Dec. 28, 1884. ... this county, while digging recently in a low, marshy place on his farm, discovered a petrified human body.

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

Scientists have confirmed that fossilized footprints found in New Mexico are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old — meaning humans existed in North America much earlier than previously believed.

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Fossilized face fragments are oldest human ancestor remains ever found in Western Europe The fossil is mysterious, however: It can't be conclusively identified as any known human ancestor species.

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in Western Europe.

Three fossilized footprints were left behind by the ancient human species Homo heidelbergensis and are the oldest discovered in Germany.