Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

Scientists from the UK recently conducted a detailed re-examination of a fossilized Prototaxites species found in ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

I’m also a paleontologist, and I’m involved in this idea of the Anthropocene: that humans are changing the geology of the Earth in a big way. We worked on the question of what kind of fossils ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was ...

The mineralized bones are the earliest human fossil remains found so far in Western Europe. However, it wasn’t immediately obvious which species of prehistoric human the team had found ...

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.

Billions of chickens are bred, slaughtered and discarded each year – leaving behind one of the most distinctive fossil records of the human age. AP - Sven Kaestner "They're going to see bones ...

They are among the oldest-known human fossils from Europe. The researchers nicknamed the fossil "Pink," honoring the band Pink Floyd. Pink's facial anatomy was more primitive than that of Homo ...