Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, but other ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been uncovered as missing information rather than designating them areas where no ...

A jawbone fossil found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a new species of marine reptile. However, new research suggests ...

Less than a decade later, World War II swallowed Germany. The fossils were housed in the Old Academy building of the Bavarian ...

Launched in September, the group aims to encourage more Marylanders to fossil hunt via learning the basics from webinars and ...

The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.

A fossil first discovered in a Moroccan mine turned out to be a new species. But now some scientists are concerned that it ...

Researchers are calling for CT scans to confirm the authenticity of a Cretaceous period fossil that led to the identification ...

An incomplete jawbone and four sharp teeth of Xenodens calminechari were discovered in a phosphate mine in Morocco known for ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...