Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

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 ...

An ancient fossil, the hunter said, a piece of a long-dead beast. At first, even seeing wasn’t believing for Juett, Sul Ross State University, located in Alpine, said in a March 11 news release.

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 ...