Half a century after its discovery, this iconic fossil remains central to our understanding of human origins In the spring of ...

A fossil, thought to be one of the oldest ever discovered, could shed new light on how the dinosaurs formed from early ...

During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic ...

Dr. Yacobucci’s research focuses on ammonites during the cretaceous period, which was the last period in ancient history with dinosaurs. She takes information from fossil research and relates it to ...

Cave fossils reveal how early humans colonised Southeast Asia - Analysis of fossils from Laos cave suggests Homo sapiens ...

New archaeological studies at Tam Pà Ling cave in Laos provide insights into the lives of early Homo sapiens, showing how ...

An "agile and lightweight" predecessor to the dinosaurs - dating back 237 million years - has been discovered in Brazil.

This week, scientists have finally unveiled the head of the largest bug ever to exist: an Arthropleura. Researchers have been ...

Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pa Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of archaeologists further insights into some of the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in ...

“Every nook and cranny and bump that occurs on a bone can tell us something about where the muscles or tendons attached and ...

Police in Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province have seized 3.5 tons of paleontological fossils stolen by a gang, with a total ...

The annual Topeka Gem and Mineral show has been shining for the past 67 years. This weekend, the Topeka Gem and Mineral ...