Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

A remarkably complete plesiosaur fossil found in southern Germany is shedding light on the early evolution of these iconic ...

On a tract of public land near Dubois, an extrusion of very old rock — known as the lower Popo Agie Formation — peeks out of a hillside. To the unskilled eye, it just looks like a patch of ...

The oldest ancient human fossils outside Africa so far are 1.8 million years old. Those fossils were discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia, considered to be the crossroads between Asia and Africa ...

Archaelogists work on excavation at level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante site at Sierra de Atapuerca ...

These giant continental pileups ... is the study of fossils. This is a powerful tool in geology and has been a vital tool for piecing together the ancient supercontinents. Since we can be fairly ...

March 12 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human ...

Credit: Carolin Haug. Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil evidence of insect larvae with highly developed eyes, revealing that some ancient larvae had advanced vision much earlier than ...

At an outcrop north of Sydney, Australia, the research team unearths a rock covered in fossil leaves of the extinct ‘seed ... By understanding how ancient plant ecosystems weathered extreme climate ...

MCNP says a new-to-science species of ancient shark was discovered through a Paleontological Resource Inventory (PRI) in the park. Researchers identified the new species of obruchevodid petalodont, ...