Researchers Categorize New Human Species After Fossils Found in China Reveal a Group That Vanished 50,000 Years Ago Extensive ...

By comparing fossils of different primate species, scientists can examine how features changed and how primates evolved through time. However, the age of each fossil primate needs to be determined ...

Scientists have described about 250,000 different fossil species, yet that is a small fraction of those that lived in the past. The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

Trace fossils cannot be moved, Feibel said. "This proves beyond any question that not only one, but two different hominins were walking on the same surface, literally within hours of each other ...

Scientists have discovered a new Cretaceous-era dinosaur species by examining photos of a fossil lost during an allied air ...

Indeed, researchers are coming to realize that the term “living fossil” is a misnomer. One by one, the classic examples—horseshoe crabs, coelacanths, cycads, and more—have turned out to be very ...

Suwa said Japanese scientists at that time thought a different bone fragment known as "Akashi Man" was the earliest human fossil from mainland Japan, perhaps more than 780,000 years old ...

They said the fossils are different from other ammonites at the genus level because their irregular paper-clip pattern starts to curl up in a regular whorl. It was the first new type of ammonite ...

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived ...

The Fossils in the Classroom teaching kit includes a collection of fossils and supporting lesson plans that allow teachers and students hands-on experience in Paleontology. The activities are ...