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 ...

Facial bones dated to between 1.4 and 1.1 million years old have been found in a cave in the Atapuerca mountains in Spain. They are the oldest bones of their kind in Western Europe, and ...

or the "elephant pit," a site less than 1,000 feet from where the fossils of Homo antecessor were discovered in 1994. The bones were not enough for researchers to determine Pink's age or gender.

A collection of older fossils from early human ancestors was previously found in Georgia, near the crossroads of eastern Europe and Asia. Those are estimated to be 1.8 million years old.

The study was co-authored by Professor Rolf Quam and graduate student Brian Keeling. The team analyzed fossils that point to a serious Neanderthal population dip around 110,000 years ago. The ...

Paleontologists gather around an area where a fish fossil was found at a new dig site in St. George. The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is starting the dig in hopes it will reveal new insights ...

Romanko is eager for Ukraine to begin critical raw minerals development as part of an effort to build a renewable energy economy, but only if it does so sustainably, ethically, fossil-free ...

Known as “living fossils,” these creatures have barely changed over millions of years and continue to prove just how tough they are. Their ability to survive and adapt is nothing short of amazing.

The fossils recovered in the area are from about 200 million years ago, in the early Jurassic period, when the land used to be covered by a body of water known as Lake Whitmore. The fossils are ...

Furthermore, findings from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition revealed that older women who drink cola daily may have lower bone mineral density compared to those who consume it less than ...