The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates.

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

Researchers have unearthed the world's oldest articulated bony fish fossil, Eosteus chongqingensis, in Xiushan county, Chongqing. This remarkable find, dating back to the early Silurian Period, was ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Paleontologists surveying a dry riverbed in northeastern Brazil repeatedly encountered the same type of fossil: a lower jaw about six inches long, curved and thick, and twisted in an unexpected way. A ...

An ancient snake fossil discovered in England reveals a strange new species and clues to the origins of modern snakes.

More than £60,000 could be spent on a plan to replace Whitby’s famous Whale Bone Arch. ​After plans to replace the arch with like-for-like real whale bones were abandoned, North Yorkshire Council has ...

In 2013, deep inside South Africa’s Rising Star Cave system, over 1,500 fossil bones were discovered — representing at least 15 individuals of a previously unknown human species. Homo naledi lived ...

A stone's throw from Whitby lies a spectacular beach brimming with fossils, shipwrecks, and stunning sunrises. Saltwick Bay is less than an hours drive from Teesside and only five minutes from Whitby ...

Just a stone’s throw from Whitby is a glorious beach full of fossils, shipwrecks and unrivalled sunrises. Saltwick Bay is just a two hour drive from Huddersfield and a five minute journey from Whitby ...