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.

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

An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen stone tools, highlighting unexpected technological sophistication 500,000 years ...

While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

Known as Tanyka amnicola, this lake-dweller with twisted jaws and teeth pointed outward lived in Gondwana 275 million years ...

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 ...

Timothy G. Bromage receives funding from The Leakey Foundation. Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood ...

They were mammoth bones… until they weren’t. For more than 70 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) was believed to have come from the Ice ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...