Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...
Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Prototaxites fossil was discovered in a sedimentary deposit near the village of Rhynie in Aberdeenshire [Neil Hanna] A ...
Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...
Paleontologists have uncovered the fossil of a new scorpion species, Jeholia longchengi, in China’s famous Yixian Formation. Dating back about 125 million years to the Early Cretaceous period, this ...
A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...
A 410-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric organism which once loomed over north-east Scotland has been added to the collections of National Museums Scotland (NMS). The example of ...