Archaeologists have unearthed the smallest known cat fossil at a site inhabited by archaic humans in eastern China. This diminutive feline, which has been identified as an extinct species of leopard ...

For decades, the story of human origins has been pieced together from fossil evidence scattered across Africa, Europe, and ...

The human fossils, along with a large number of fossilized animal bones and stone tools, have been unearthed at the Hualongdong site in Dongzhi county, East China's Anhui province. Chinese ...

France’s varied geology makes it fertile ground for dinosaur fossil hunters, but many finds have only been unearthed in the ...

A large number of stone tools and mammal fossils were found at the site. Many of the various stone tools were well preserved. The tools were mainly made from quartz and vein quartz. The types of ...

Fossils predating the dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years have been found in a paving stone in a Scottish city centre. Thousands of people have walked over the remains of 385 million-year ...

Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...